TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 State Secretary: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.tasfhs.org

Patron: Dr Alison Alexander Fellows: Neil Chick, David Harris and Denise McNeice

Executive: President Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Vice President Anita Swan (03) 6326 5778 Vice President Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Executive Secretary Miss Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Executive Treasurer Miss Betty Bissett (03) 6344 4034

Committee: Judy Cocker Rosemary Davidson David Harris FTFHS Isobel Harris John Gillham Libby Gillham Peter Holloway Judith Whish-Wilson Beverley Richardson Helen Stuart

By-laws Officer Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 eHeritage Coordinator Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Exchange Journal Coordinator Thelma McKay (03) 6229 3149 Home Page (State) Webmaster Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Journal Editor Leonie Mickleborough (03) 6223 7948 Journal Despatcher Leo Prior (03) 6228 5057 LWFHA Coordinator Anita Swan (03) 6326 5778 Members’ Interests Compiler John Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Membership Registrar Judy Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Projects & Publications Coord. Rosemary Davidson (03) 6278 2462 Public Officer Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Registrar General BDM Coord. Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Research Coordinator Mrs Kaye Stewart (03) 6362 2073 State Sales Officer Mrs Pat Harris (03) 6344 3951

Branches of the Society Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 [email protected] Devonport: PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 [email protected] Hobart: PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 [email protected] Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 [email protected] Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 [email protected]

Volume 24 Number 1 June 2003 ISSN 0159 0677

Contents Editorial ...... 2 President’s Message ...... 3 Notice of Annual General Meeting ...... 4 Branch News ...... 5 William Purton: Tasmanian Settler–Geelong Pioneer, Barbara Bolt . . . . 9 The Convict Ship Joseph Somes, James Halsey ...... 13 Port Arthur Muster, 10 August 2003, Susan Hood ...... 20 The Lady Nelson—Her Story, Jonathan Davis ...... 21 Home sought for photographs, R. Kellett ...... 23 A Brief History of Clan Leslie, J. Barrie Leslie ...... 24 Surprises!! Kate Carlisle ...... 27 My Family History, Ashlee Carpenter-Gregory ...... 28 Subscription and Exchange Journals ...... 29 Queries, New Members’ Interests and New Members ...... Insert Supplement ...... Insert George Van Diemen, Rosemary Brown...... 33 Tasmanian Bigamist, Helen Harris OAM ...... 37 The Queries Page, Christine Woods ...... 38 Tasmanian Place Names, Susan L. Waters...... 39 William Emmerton —An Old Colonist, Dorothy Corbett ...... 43 Progress out the back in the ‘You Know What’, Irene Schaffer ...... 45 Pioneers who lived in Kiama and district area up to 1920 ...... 46 Lost, Stolen or Strayed … and Found! ...... 47 Genes on Screen, Vee Maddock ...... 50 Tasmaniana Library, State Library of Tasmania, New Acquisitions . . . . . 52 From the Exchange Journals, Thelma McKay ...... 54 Book Review ...... 56 Coming Events ...... 57 Library Notes ...... 59 Society Sales ...... 64

Deadline dates for contributions: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October

EDITORIAL Journal Committee Leonie Mickleborough Rosemary Davidson, Jeannine Connors, David Hodgson, Welcome to this issue of Tasmanian Charles Hunt, Vee Maddock, Ancestry, the first in Volume 24. Each of Denise McNeice, Cynthia O’Neill, Leo Prior, the four issues of Volume 23 was posted Kate Ramsay and Colleen Read. to an average of 1465 addresses both in Australia and overseas. This total, as Journal address well as individual members, includes PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 other societies. Such wide distribution or email [email protected] means that our journal is accessible to many people.

I received an indication of the success Articles are welcomed in any format— of this program recently, when a member handwritten, typed or word processed, on of the GSV contacted me for information disk, on CD Rom, or by email. Disks and about an article we had published, and photographs will be returned on request. which he had read in the GSV library. Deadline dates are: Commencing on page 29 is a list of the 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October journals of other societies which are available for our members to access. The opinions expressed in this journal are These can be borrowed by the branches not necessarily those of the editorial and read their library. committee nor of the Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. Responsibility rests The nautically-minded will find two with the author of a submitted article and articles of particular interest. One on the we do not intentionally print inaccurate Lady Nelson and the other on the Joseph information. The society cannot vouch for Somes, which includes a list of convicts the accuracy of offers for services or goods transported to the colony in 1846. Our that appear in the journal, or be responsible March issue included an article on Clan for the outcome of any contract entered into Macfarlane, and this issue, on page 24, with an advertiser. The editor reserves the we include a brief history of Clan Leslie. right to edit, abridge or reject material.

Dorothy Corbett examines William If you wish to contact the author of an Emmerton, an 1850s pioneer around the article in Tasmanian Ancestry please write area of Stanley, and similarly, the life of care of the editor, enclosing a stamped William Purton, another early colonist, is envelope and your letter will be forwarded. explored by Barbara Bolt. © The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are Our September journal will have subject to the provisions of the Copyright articles with a sporting theme. I have Act and may not be reproduced without already received an indication that there written permission of the editor and author. will be at least four different sports represented, so even at this early stage it promises to be full of interest. Cover: The Lady Nelson near Stanley, Happy reading of this issue, and I Tasmania, see article on pages 21 to 23. welcome your comments. Photograph © Irene Schaffer Leonie Mickleborough

2 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Y the time you read this report, next task is to set up the network so that branches will be about two either computer can access the Internet B months into the new financial through the one connection. Because the year with their newly elected committees. use of computers is becoming a bigger I would like to thank sincerely all those and bigger part of nearly everything that members who have been in an elected we do, I ask the question should we have position within their respective branch more articles or help files on computers committees during the last twelve and their general use for genealogy? months. Often it can be a thankless task, Congratulations to Vee for her article in but a most essential one. However, last March’s Tasmanian Ancestry, in without the help given by elected which she gave a very succinct and members and the volunteers who do helpful description on how to use search library duty, help with branch pub- engines on the Internet. If you use the lications and projects, our society would Internet for research and if you are having cease to exist. To those of you who have trouble in locating the right information, just been elected to branch positions for have a look at Vee’s article from the last the first time I would like to say thank edition. you for coming forward to seek election. I would also like to remind members If you can put into our organisation about the requirements that we are personal effort, you will be rewarded obliged to follow in regard to the many times over with new friends, new Amendments of the Privacy Act 1988. information, personal development and a On the current membership form there is greater understanding of the one of the a choice of two boxes, one of which most popular hobbies in the world. should be ticked so that we know if we During February, I was invited to give a have your permission to publish your presentation to the Hobart Branch. I must contact details in Tasmanian Ancestry say that I was made extremely welcome and elsewhere. We are still receiving and I enjoyed the evening very much. forms on which no box has been ticked. The Hobart group members are certainly Under the Act we have no option but to friendly and I suggest that any other ‘Out withhold publication of any details of that of Town’ people who venture to the member in any of our publications. southern populated areas of our State It was three years ago that our Society would be most welcome if they dropped decided to change its name from the in to say hello at the Hobart Branch Genealogical Society of Tasmania Inc. to Library. Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. Genealogy is not the only hobby I enjoy. and two years since the name was I also derive enjoyment from computers officially changed; how quickly time goes and music. We have just bought a new by. I trust that many of you have made computer and I am going through the arrangements to attend our AGM in process of networking our two Launceston this year and to celebrate our computers. One is running ME, the other second birthday. XP. So far, I have been able to set up a shared folder and a shared printer. The Peter Cocker

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 3

NOTICE OF MEETING

Notice is hereby given in accordance with Rule 14, that the

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. is to be held on Saturday 21 June 2003 at the Quercus Rural Youth Function Centre 415 Oaks Road, Carrick commencing at 2:00 pm Voting is restricted to financial members of the Society and a current membership card may be required as proof of membership.

AGENDA 1 Welcome 2 Apologies 3 Presentation of the 2002 ‘Lilian Watson Family History Award’ 4 Presentation of Meritorious Service Awards 5 Read and Confirm minutes of the 2002 AGM 6 Business Arising 7 Reports 8 Election of Office Bearers and Endorsement of Branch Delegates 9 General Business: i Notice of Motion 1: that Rule 6. which reads: "Income and Property: The assets and income of the Society shall be applied solely in furtherance of its above mentioned Aims and Objectives and no portion shall be distributed directly or indirectly to the members of the Society except as bona fide compensation for services rendered or expenses incurred on behalf of the Society" Add the words "except as provided in Rule 22". ii 2004 Annual General Meeting, Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. — venue.

Peter Cocker PRESIDENT

4 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 BRANCH NEWS

Burnie • speaker from the Penguin History http://www.clients.tas.webnet.com.au/ Group geneal/burnbranch.htm • birth, death and marriage certificates President Vernice Dudman • Army records pre WW1 (03) 6431 1378 Our day meetings are still held on the Secretary Peter Holloway (03) 6431 1958 first Monday of each month and have PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 proved to be popular. email: [email protected] As we begin a new financial year, I wish to Devonport congratulate all the http://www.devonport.tco.asn.au/dev-gst/ office-bearers for 2003– President David Harris (03) 6424 5328 2004 for the branch and Secretary Elaine Garwood (03) 6424 4005 thank you for volunteer- PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 email: [email protected] ing your talents to help us maintain our successful branch and The new library library. Many thanks go to the com- rooms were officially mittee members who did not seek re- opened on Friday 21 election, especially Dawn Collins, who March 2003. The has stepped down after serving invitation included approximately twenty years on the branch representatives from committee. many of the organisa- tions in the Devonport area and accept- During that time she has served as ances were received from over forty President, Vice-President, Secretary, people. State Delegate as well as State Secretary. Over that time Dawn was a very active A large number of our members was also member of the committee helping out at in attendance. Mike Smith acted as MC our various activities and also making her and visitors and members were welcomed home available for functions and by our Vice-president Sue McCreghan, committee meetings. We will miss your who also presented a selection of our presence at our committee meetings, publications to the librarian of the Reece Dawn, and an enormous ‘Thank you!’ High School for placement in their new school library. At our March meeting, Grant Kingston from the Public Trustee spoke on various Mary Binks, a former mayor of issues regarding wills, estates and similar. Devonport cut the ribbon and officially Our April meeting was a computer night, opened the rooms. These proceedings focussing on successful scanning and at were followed by a lovely afternoon tea. our May meeting we once again focussed It has been pleasing to see several on wills (worldwide)—how and where to members volunteering to undergo some obtain copies. training as library assistants as it is now necessary to have two assistants on duty Over the next few months we hope to at all times. Since we moved to our new feature at our meetings: location the number of visitors and • German night

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 5 members using the library has increased As a trial we are opening the library to significantly. Elaine Garwood spoke at members on the fourth Friday night in the the February meeting about her Fletcher month: 27 June, 25 July, 22 August at ancestors who originated from 7:00 p.m. Marjorie Jacklyn ran two Cumberland U.K. In March David Harris excellent in-service courses for library spoke about his recent holiday in assistants on Australian resources held in Queensland, this was followed by general the library. As a result, a list of discussion. Australian resources is available for library assistants and there are question Hobart and answer cards available for revision. http://www.hobart.tasfhs.org In March, in addition to members, we had President Beverley Richardson fifty-two visitors using our library. Joyce (03) 6225 3292 email: Purtscher gave a talk on family history to [email protected] 7RPH listeners. Secretary Leo Prior (03) 6228 5057 The library is accessible to people in or 0419 527 542 PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 wheelchairs, who, if unaccompanied, email: [email protected] should phone the secretary at least a day A sincere thank you to before so that arrangements can be made all who volunteered to for the access door to be opened. If a help with the activities visually impaired person wants of the Branch. The assistance, he or she should phone the more volunteers we secretary so that arrangements can be have the more tasks we made to provide help. can complete. Of the forty people who attended the As Cynthia O’Neill did not stand for beginners’ course, fourteen have joined secretary this year, she volunteered to be the society. Cynthia O’Neill organised the New Members Liaison Officer. the four courses; Dianne Snowden and Bryan Pearce has become our Media Maree Ring were the teachers and Liaison Officer. Robert Tanner has taken Marjorie Jacklyn explained the library over from Vee Maddock as the Branch resources. webmaster. We thank Vee for setting up At our first meeting for the year the State the webpage and Robert for taking up this President, Peter Cocker, gave a task and also for volunteering to provide fascinating talk on “How I found my written instructions for the use of new German ancestors through the internet”. CDs. The other change has been moving We were all envious of his splendid the PO Box closer to our library. Please technological presentation. At our note the change. daytime meeting at Kingston, Thelma Marjorie Jacklyn gave new members a McKay gave an excellent talk on tour of the library explaining the researching land records. resources available and Brenda The schools’ project is well underway. Richardson and Kathy Bluhm helped two Fifteen schools, involving thirty classes, new members who requested individual have expressed interest in participating. assistance with their English research. There will be three prizes for the best family history: lower primary, upper

6 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 primary and secondary. The Minister for 16 September—Phillip Tardif, Notorious Education will present the prizes. Strumpets and Dangerous Girls The latest publication, Undertakers of Day meetings: 2:00 p.m. as specified. Hobart Vol. II: Index to Alex Clark and 12 June: Sister Carmel, Catholic records Son Funeral Records 1885–1907, has kept at Mt St Canice. Venue: Mt St proved very popular. Later this year it is Canice hoped that the Clark Brothers undertakers’ records will also be 11 September: Susan Hood, Transcribing convict records. Venue: Sorell Football available. Club meeting room The eHeritage project is proceeding well, and is proving a learning experience. The Computer Users Group: Branch Library 4th Wednesday of the month, 7:30 p.m. RGD indexing of the BDM to 1930 has begun with Hobart doing the initial trial. WISE Interest Group: Branch Library 1st Sunday of February, May, August, To encourage people to record their November, 2:00 p.m. family history so their research is not lost, we are beginning a family history writers’ Family History Writers Group: Branch rd support group. The first meeting will be Library 3 Thursday in the month, on 17 April at 2:00 p.m. at the Branch 2:00 p.m. starting 17 April Library. It will be an informal meeting where people will have an opportunity to discuss problems and receive suggestions Launceston on how to proceed. http://www.bracknell.tco.asn.au/ launcestongensoc Any members who would like to receive President: Anita Swan (03) 6326 5778 our regular newsletter by email should Secretary Muriel Bissett contact Cynthia O’Neill. Phone/Fax (03) 6344 4034 The branch will be holding a library tour PO Box 1290 Launceston TAS 7250 for members on Saturday 14 June at email: [email protected] 9:30 a.m. It would be appreciated if For our first get- those members wishing to attend would together for 2003, we advise either Marjorie Jacklyn: visited the Launceston [email protected] or phone the Community History secretary on 6228 5057 so that extra Museum and thank library assistants can be arranged if Rhonda Hamilton and needed. Ross Smith for giving General Meetings: Rosny Library Bligh of their time and Street 3rd Tuesday in the month (except expertise. Very broadly, the museum at December and January) 8:00 p.m. present on the corner of Cimitiere and St John Streets, houses the older records of 17 June—Janet Fenton, Growing up out the Launceston City Council, dating from of town 1853 and former Councils (before 15 July—Leone Scrivener, An historic amalgamation), as well as numerous Sandy Bay home collections from prominent local families, 19 August—Wendy Rimon, Tasmanian and organisations such as the Gatenby women in the Boer War collection and Patons & Baldwins. There is a huge photograph collection which is

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 7 well indexed and copies of photographs Arrangements are well in hand, BUT it are available for a fee. Well worth a cannot happen successfully WITHOUT a visit! good attendance. Please check back to Geoff Rapley is continuing his helpful your March Journal and get your contact with researchers at the City application form in without delay! Reference Library. Alma Ranson is Do come! leading the Launceston Branch eHeritage team, together with Russell Watson and Robert Cook, and we are looking forward Huon to seeing the results of their efforts. President Betty Fletcher (03) 6264 1546 Our Branch President (and State Vice Secretary Libby Gillham (03) 6239 6529 President) Anita Swan and her committee PO Box 117 Huonville TAS 7109 are co-ordinating the Lilian Watson email: [email protected]

Family History Award for 2003. Entry No report received. forms and details are available from our

Branch libraries. New publications include Index to the Launceston Examiner, Volume 4, 1860– 1865 and Index to The Examiner, Obituaries and Funerals, 1951–1960 and work is ongoing on the Launceston Examiner series, the next volume of the Shipping Index, and Teachers from Walch’s Red Books. Anita and her helpers are conducting a 10-week series of classes with School for HOBART BRANCH Seniors—a very interesting time for all concerned. NEW POSTAL ADDRESS On Saturday, 29 March we were pleased to turn on a fine day to welcome the TFHS Inc. Library a team of keen researchers from Hobart Branch Burnie Branch, who had spent the PO Box 326 morning at the City Reference Library. Rosny Park At the time of writing we are looking forward to our Annual General Meeting Tasmania 7018 on 22 April, various workshops, BIG Group activities and the State Annual General meeting on 21 June, at Quercus Rural Youth Centre, 415 Oaks Road, Carrick. We promise an excellent Dinner, with a well-known and popular Launceston speaker and on Sunday an unusual bus tour in the Whitemore area with Mr Ivan Heazlewood, local historian.

8 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 WILLIAM PURTON TASMANIAN SETTLER—GEELONG PIONEER Barbara Bolt (Member No. 74) HE goldrush days of the 1850s agricultural labourer, William was a brought a huge number of carter, with many years experience in the T immigrants to Victoria, but southern counties of England. In 1836 he ‘Australia Felix’ received its first and his family had struck bad times and European settlers in the previous decades, were ‘on the parish’ in the village of many from across Bass Strait. The Wormshill when they were given the founders of Melbourne took sheep from chance for a new life and sent out to Van Diemen’s Land to join those driven Hobart on the immigrant ship William in from New South Wales, which were Metcalfe. initially cared for by ex-convicts, who Ten years later, William and his wife lived solitary lives as they patrolled the with their two youngest daughters, were largely unfenced grazing. The 1830s among the 109 passengers on the became the 1840s and the need was seen Emigration Society’s ship the Scotia for more skilled settlers than these which left Hobart on 20 April 1846, on emancipists; families to set up new towns the second stage of emigration. based on the Portland basin. These were to be found among the families of free The Scotia, a schooner of 112 tons, made several journeys for the Society, settlers now beginning to arrive in conveying passengers to Port Phillip numbers. between 1845 and 1847. Her 1846 The ‘Geelong and Portland Bay voyage was under the command of James Emigration Society’ was established by a GILL. On arrival, the passengers were group of Van Diemen’s Land landowners placed in the Government immigrant looking to expand beyond the confines of camp at Geelong and although many Launceston. They raised the finance to moved on to Port Fairy, the Purton family charter suitable vessels to convey likely made Geelong their home. There were recruits, especially the labouring poor continuing links with Tasmania. being sent out from the English counties William’s eldest daughter had married in as an alternative to the workhouse. Hobart two years earlier, and a brother, Newspapers in Hobart and Launceston Shadrack Purton, an ex-private of the carried the message: ‘Emigrants to 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Geelong wanted … good farming Regiment, had been working on the 1 servants, labourers, etc.’ The message Adelphi estate near Westbury, Van could well have continued: ‘preferably Diemen’s Land, since 1836, following with wives and children’, it was as family some years as a convict overseer.2 In groups that Vandiemonians became 1842, Shadrack was on a list of those Victorians. holding a carter’s license3 and his eldest One of those who responded to the son was later a carter in Kyneton, advertisement, was William PURTON, a Victoria. William may have worked with native of Kent. Although named on the his brother until the chance came for him Society’s embarkation list as an to go further afield and set up on his own.

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 9 The Bass Strait crossing would have been the Lieutenant-Governor5 roundly a much more pleasant journey than that condemning the system that he believed which brought the family out from brought out the destitute of English England. The William Metcalfe made a workhouses to become a drain on the number of immigrant voyages to charity of the colonies. Far from fit and Victoria, but none could have been as able workers with children who could terrible as they had endured in 1836, with support themselves, the passengers on the the passengers arriving in such a poor William Metcalfe were (he claimed), too state of health they could well have old and infirm to be other than an added wished they had never left the burden—but in naming ‘ William Purton, uncertainties of their native Kent. agriculturist’, the Colonial Secretary had Shadrack's escape from rural poverty in chosen the wrong example. England had occurred five years before To begin at the beginning. William, and although he could neither William Purton was the son of Robert read nor write, it is likely that they were PIRTON (sic) and Mary PITCHETT in touch, perhaps with messages brought ‘travellers’6 baptised 2 December 1787 at by other arrivals—probably with the East Grinstead Sussex.7 Mary, his wife, wonderful new penny post. Shadrack’s appears variously as MOOR and older sons had received some schooling, MOORE, baptised 1800.8 The couple and could be called on to deal with the married by banns in her home parish of printed word. Aylsford, Kent,9 but the baptisms of their Records of children in the pre free children are in the nearby Wormshill,10 education days are scarce, but the and it was from there that they set off to unmarried daughters must have followed join the William Metcalfe. their parents. Solomon Purton is listed on The Emigration Application shows the 4 the 1837 census at an orphan school. He Purton family with seven children: also followed his parents to Victoria, but Mancel (sic) 15, George 13, Solomon 11, his name became changed to PEARDON. John 7, Elinor 5, Jane (sic) 2 and ‘an It is possible that other boys were quickly infant’ of two months—Mary Ann. absorbed into the workforce, possibly as The William Metcalfe left London on 7 crew on ships, never to return to October, 1836, a Friday, an ominous day Australia. for superstitious seamen. A diarist, Records we have of the family show that Samuel ELLIOTT, recorded that the first William was successful in Geelong and night was ‘Wet and unpleasant, scores of lived there until his death in 1869, three passengers were seasick, gingerbread and years before his wife. Their grave is in brandy was given and they soon the Geelong cemetery and is still clearly recovered’. The voyage lasted for three marked. months and eighteen days of sheer misery William Purton may never have been for many of those on board. As the aware that their privations on the William diarist recorded, babies were born and Metcalfe made him the subject of babies died, among them, ‘Maria (sic) correspondence from John MONTAGUE, daughter of William and Mary Purton Van Diemen’s Land Colonial Secretary at from Wormsell (sic) … was buried in the the time. Montague cited the Purton wave’. family as an example when he wrote to

10 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 In all, twelve children were ‘buried in the William Purton—Agriculturalist—wife wave’ in the course of the voyage. The and 6 children … The father although weather may have been stormy, but ships entered as 45 years of age in the list survive storms. The chief cause of death transmitted from the Colonial Office is would have been because rations were nearly 60, and the mother rated 36 is inadequate for the needs of children and nearly 50. Both are infirm and incapable nursing mothers! Elliott recorded that the of earning a livelihood. The age of the Captain and Surgeon were utter eldest child, a son, is 15 years, and the remaining children too young to provide scoundrels who withheld the rations for themselves.13 provided. The Wormshill parish had not falsified We had just sufficient to keep us from the parents’ ages—Mary Ann had another starving … while a few favoured ones were served with the best, on purpose to child after they arrived in Tasmania, and swear on the Capn. and Dr’s behalf in it was highly unlikely that she was the 14 case we made a stir when the ship age that Dr Evans suggests. ‘Mansell’ arrived.11 the eldest child was a daughter, not ‘a When the ship finally docked in Hobart son’. Hers became a family name passed Town many of the passengers were in a on for several generations. Far from very poor way, but a ‘stir’ was eventually being ‘incapable of earning a living’ made, and the enquiry pointed to the William supported his family for many behaviour of the captain and medical more years. Mansell married Peter John SINCLAIR15 of Hobart, and Eleanor officer. In the meantime, the Colonial 16 Secretary had written to the Lieutenant- married in Melbourne, James STEELE, Governor, and despatched his report an emancipated convict. The couple then lived in Ballarat. Mary Ann married John regarding the families on the William 17 Metcalfe. HERBERT from Sweden in Buninyong. The couple then lived near Shepparton. It is to be regretted that the contemplated measure of Family Emigration … tried as Some years after the death of both an experiment has not been successful. William and his brother Shadrack, an This may be entirely attributed to the enquiry was begun by their children unsuitableness of the selection, many of which they hoped would result in their the heads of families … from age and being declared heirs to a fortune. A constitutional infirmity, being quite namesake of an elder brother, George incapable of earning the means of support PERTON (sic) had died in England with for themselves, much less their children much of his wealth ‘undistributed’.18 … it was found necessary to afford the William’s lawyer son-in-law and parents relief in food from the Asylum, and their children admission into the Shadrack’s eldest son made an Orphan Schools.12 application, based on the supposed word of their parents about ‘money in the This seems to have been the case for the family’ and supported by various Purton family, as the report is affidavits. The net effect of their efforts accompanied by a letter from Dr EVANS, was to confirm that there was no the Superintendant of the Immigrants’ connection with a wealthy jeweller in Asylum, and gives an example of the Birmingham,19 but their efforts did ‘unsuitable’ families: supply future family historians with the names of other siblings and an outline of

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 11 Shadrack’s army career. The various papers associated with the application have provided a treasure beyond any Allan Vanston financial heirloom—descendants of the two brothers have a record of their origins, lowly though they may have ‘your man on location’ been.  in West Yorkshire, England

Endnotes 1 Papers of the Geelong and Portland Bay Allan will visit your chosen Immigration Society, State Library, Melbourne 2 See articles Tas. Ancestry 1989 and Ancestor, location/s and produce a fully Genealogical Society Victoria Autumn 1997 edited and historically correct 3 Hobart Town Gazette 1842 film of an area or particular 4 Hobart Census, New Town POL29/30 3294 address with all (or your choice (1837). Solomon Peardon (sic) d.1885. Buried of) the following: in Melbourne Main Cemetery. 5 CSO 5/10 pp.65–68 and GO 33/26 pp.657–659 • 6 Background information of Capel Parish Reg. 25 October 1784 town, village or street 7 East Grinstead Reg. 1787 • Titles 8 Aylsford Baptism Reg. 1800 • Background music 9 Aylsford Marriage Reg. 1819 • 10 Wormshill Baptism Register: Mantle (sic) Narration 1821, George 1823, Solomon 1826, John • General overview of the 1828, Eleanor 1831, Maria Jane 1834 no area baptism for Mary Ann, born 1836. Eliza Jane born l838 in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) 11 Journal of Samuel Elliott. Note the name—it was Maria Jane who died For the 12 ‘best deal in town’ CSO 5/10 pp.65–68 and GO 33/26 pp.657–9 13 CSO 5/10 pp.65–68 and GO 33/26 pp.657–9 14 Later generations as ‘Mancell’ Allan Vanston 15 Peter Johnstone Sinclair, 1823–1895 (son of ‘Classique Video Productions’ H.B. Sinclair) occupation solicitor 94, Manor Drive Cottingley 16 James Steele, 1809–1869 occupation timber Bingley merchant West Yorkshire 17 John Herbert 1836–1889 (son of John Herbert BD16–1PN and Margaret Jones) occupation carter England 18 Will of George Perton, Gloucester (retired Birmingham jewellery manufacturer) proved at  0011 44 127 456 3103 £265,000, but only about £60,000 was bequeathed 19 email See Ancestor Autumn 1997 [email protected]

12 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 THE CONVICT SHIP JOSEPH SOMES James Halsey (Member No. 5772)

HE following list of 250 male The Surgeon, James L. Clarke, MD RN, convicts transported in the Joseph in his ‘General Remarks’ which comprise T Somes to Van Diemen’s Land the largest part of his Report (a separate between December 1845 and May 1846 document), states that three children of is an index made from the names in the soldiers of the guard died aboard, and original document at the PRO Kew three were born. Their names are not (HO/11/14), not a transcription of it. It given. Most of his report is concerned does, however, give all the details set out with the ill health of those who died, but in the original list, which includes courts, there are other appendices, one of which dates of conviction and sentences, is a ‘Nosological Synopsis’, although not together with such other notes and details by name of convict. as written into the list. These notes His General Remarks state that identify deaths aboard ship. They are very On the 22nd December the Ship got faint but appear to be: under weigh from Woolwich, and Joseph Fenton 25 February 1846 anchored in the Downs on Christmas Edwin Hartridge 19 April 1846 Day where she was detained by foul Richard Pitts 24 April 1846 winds until the 14th January ’46. Thomas Slade 14 May 1846 After leaving the Downs the Ship Thomas Watson 20 February 1846 encountered a succession of gales and Reuben White 23 February 1846 foul winds for a month and I deemed it John Yates 20 --- 1846 advisable to put into Teneriffe for Three notes in the original convict list water and refreshments. After detail the dates from which particular receiving the above and a quantity of sentences were ‘to be commuted’: Oranges which were highly refreshing James Bishop 8 July 1845 to the prisoners, the Ship left Teneriffe Samuel Chapman 30 October 1845 on the 18th February and Anchored off Thomas Clark 24 October 1845 Hobart Town V.D.L. on the 19th May ‘Counties’, as described in the index, are being in all 125 days from the Downs. expressed in the more usual current The Downs are the waters off Sandwich terms, and occasionally differ from the and Deal which, by dint of the east Kent headings used in the original document – and Thanet coast, gain some slight shelter e.g. Lancashire for Lancaster; Shropshire from the worst westerly, northerly and for Salop and Hampshire for north-westerly gales. Southampton. Abbreviations used in table In this index, as in the original, where a A Assizes surname alias is given any forename alias B Boro’ [Borough] relates thereto. Aliases generally appear QS Quarter Sessions in the court documents, hence their use in COJ Court of Justiciary the original list. GS General Sessions

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 13 Name Where convicted County/Country Date Term ADAMS Michael Manchester B QS Lancashire 4 Sep 1845 7 ADAMS Thomas Gloucester S Gloucestershire 1 Jul 1845 7 ALLAN Peter Alnwick QS Northumberland 15 Oct 1845 15 ALLEN East Retford QS Nottinghamshire 21 Oct 1844 7 alias CARROLL John alias Michael ALLIBONE Richard Warwick QS Warwickshire 13 Oct 1845 7 ALLSOPP George Leicester QS Leicestershire 30 Dec 1844 7 ASH James Manchester B QS Lancashire 4 Sep 1845 10 ATKINSON Thomas Preston QS Lancashire 15 Oct 1845 7 BABINGTON Joseph Leicester B QS Leicestershire 14 Oct 1844 7 BANKS John Nether Knutsford QS Cheshire 19 May 1845 14 BASSETT Edward Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 10 BEARMAN Cornelius Chelmsford QS Essex 1 Jul 1845 7 BERRY Lot Oxford QS Oxfordshire 30 Jun 1845 7 BIRCH James Shrewsbury B QS Shropshire 30 Jun 1845 14 BISHOP James Warminster QS Wiltshire 1 Jul 1845 7 BLAND John Northampton QS Northamptonshire 2 Jul 1845 14 BOYD Robert Perth Justiciary Scotland 2 Oct 1844 7 BRADBEAR John Clerkenwell QS Middlesex 6 Oct 1845 7 BRADLEY Henry Kirkdale QS Lancashire 30 Oct 1844 10 BRANTON William Birmingham B QS Warwickshire 17 Oct 1845 10 BREAR George Wakefield QS Yorkshire 9 Sep 1844 7 BREEZE John Stafford QS Staffordshire 30 Jun 1845 10 BREMNER George Edinburgh COJ Scotland 14 Jul 1845 7 BROMLEY William Birmingham B QS Warwickshire 18 Oct 1844 7 BROPHY John Birmingham B QS Warwickshire 18 Oct 1844 7 BROWN Edward Clerkenwell Sessions Middlesex 11 Feb 1845 7 BROWN Henry Central Criminal Court London 14 Sep 1844 10 BROWN James Maidstone QS Kent 14 Oct 1845 10 BURGESS William Chester Assizes Cheshire 5 Aug 1845 7 BUTCHER Robert Norwich QS Norfolk 2 Jul 1845 10 CAMPBELL Alexander Inverness COJ Scotland 25 Sep 1845 7 CARPENTER Frederick Gloucester Assizes Gloucestershire 2 Apr 1845 10 CARROLL William Assizes for Warwick Warwickshire 6 Aug 1845 7 Division CASEY John Central Criminal Court London 1 Jul 1844 10 CATMER James Clerkenwell GS Middlesex 26 Aug 1845 7 CHAPMAN Samuel Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland 30 Jul 1845 7 Assizes CHARLES Thomas Louth QS Lincolnshire 21 Oct 1845 15 CHARLTON Joseph Northallerton QS Yorkshire 15 Oct 1844 10 CLARK Thomas Lewes QS Sussex 24 Sep 1845 7 CLARKE John Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 10 CLEMENTS Daniel Abingdon QS Berkshire 30 Jun 1845 10 CLEMENTS William Newington QS Surrey 26 May 1845 10 COHEN Moses Central Criminal Court London 21 Oct 1844 7 COMBS William Nether Knutsford QS Cheshire 13 Oct 1845 7 CONNER Thomas Sheffield QS Yorkshire 12 Sep 1845 7 COWIE Wilson Edinburgh COJ Scotland 14 Jul 1845 10 CROSS James Gloucester Assizes Gloucestershire 2 Aug 1845 9

14 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Name Where convicted County/Country Date Term CROW Robert Leicester B QS Leicestershire 28 Feb 1845 7 DAVIES John Liverpool B QS Lancashire 21 Jul 1845 10 DAVIS Thomas Clerkenwell Sessions Middlesex 5 Nov 1844 7 DERNACOUR William Central Criminal Court London 21 Oct 1844 7 DEXETER Joseph Bath B QS Somerset 28 Oct 1844 10 DIPPLE Alfred Worcester QS Worcestershire 13 Oct 1845 7 DOGHERTY Charles Salford GS Lancashire 1 Sep 1845 7 DOGHERTY George Kirkdale QS Lancashire 17 Jul 1844 7 DONOLLY Thomas Liverpool B QS Lancashire 21 Jul 1845 10 DONOVAN John Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 10 DOOLEY James the younger Maidstone QS Kent 3 Jul 1845 15 DOUGLAS Edinburgh COJ Scotland 14 May 1845 7 alias SCOTT James DOW John Perth COJ Scotland 26 Apr 1845 14 DOWNHAM Charles Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 10 DRURY John Salford GS Lancashire 1 Sep 1845 7 DUNN John Exeter City QS Devon 1 Jul 1845 10 DUNTON Joseph Bedford QS Bedfordshire 14 Oct 1845 7 EATON Jabez Derby QS Derbyshire 1 Jul 1845 10 EVANS William Gloucester QS Gloucestershire 14 Oct 1845 7 EXELL Henry Maidstone QS Kent 3 Jul 1845 10 FARLEY William St Augustine's QS Kent 17 Oct 1845 15 FENT0N Joseph Birmingham B QS Warwickshire 3 Jan 1845 7 FIELD Thomas Court Martial Bermuda 10 Sep 1844 14 FURZER Joseph Bridgwater QS Somerset 1 Jul 1845 10 GALE William Leicester QS Leicestershire 30 Jun 1845 10 GIDDINS Thomas Court Martial Bermuda 30 Jul 1844 17 GIBSON Surrey Assizes Surrey 31 Jul 1844 10 alias MAY Edward GRADY Henry Manchester B QS Lancashire 26 Dec 1844 7 GREEN Charles Bath B QS Somerset 28 Oct 1844 10 GREEN Joseph Chelmsford QS Essex 14 Oct 1845 10 GREENMAN Charles Newington QS Surrey 26 May 1845 10 GRIFFIN Kingston upon Hull B QS Yorkshire 19 Oct 1844 10 alias McLOUGHLIN Michael HALSTEAD George Leicester B QS Leicestershire 14 Oct 1844 7 HANDFORD John Preston GS Lancashire 11 Aug 1843 7 HANVELL Thomas Clerkenwell GS Middlesex 23 Sep 1845 10 HARDING John Manchester B QS Lancashire 4 Sep 1845 7 HARDING John Stafford QS Staffordshire 14 Oct 1844 7 HARDWICK Henry Worcester City Special Worcestershire 2 Dec 1844 10 Assizes HARRIS George Winchester QS Hampshire 13 Oct 1845 7 HARRISON Peter Leeds QS Yorkshire 16 Oct 1844 7 HARTRIDGE Edwin Central Criminal Court London 14 Sep 1844 10 HARTRIDGE William Central Criminal Court London 14 Sep 1844 10 HARTWELL Henry Gloucester QS Gloucestershire 1 Jul 1845 7 HOGDEN John Town of Nottingham QS Nottinghamshire 10 Oct 1845 10 HOPCRAFT Samuel Aylesbury QS Buckinghamshire 1 Jul 1845 15 HORTON Joseph Hertford QS Hertfordshire 13 Oct 1845 7

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 15 Name Where convicted County/Country Date Term HOLMES Andrew Hexham QS Northumberland 2 Jul 1845 7 HOLMES William Wiltshire Assizes Wiltshire 9 Aug 1845 10 HOWARD Thomas Manchester B QS Lancashire 28 Oct 1844 7 HUBBARD John Norwich City QS Norfolk 1 Jul 1845 14 HUGHES Thomas Liverpool Assizes Lancashire 13 Aug 1845 10 HYDE George Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 10 INGRAM George Birmingham B QS Warwickshire 23 May 1845 7 IRELAND Richard Oxford Assizes Oxfordshire 12 Jul 1845 8 JAMES James Central Criminal Court London 16 Dec 1844 7 JARVIS Thomas Northampton Assizes Northamptonshire 3 Mar 1845 15 JEPSON David Leeds QS Yorkshire 8 Jul 1845 7 JOHNSON James York Assizes Yorkshire 10 Jul 1845 15 JOHNSON John Chester City QS Cheshire 17 Oct 1845 15 JOHNSON William Clerkenwell Sessions Middlesex 10 Jun 1845 7 JONES Charles Exeter City QS Devon 1 Jul 1845 10 JONES Henry Assizes for Warwick Warwickshire 6 Aug 1845 10 Division JONES John Manchester B QS Lancashire 27 Oct 1845 7 JONES John Birmingham B QS Warwickshire 23 May 1845 10 JONES Samuel Liverpool B QS Lancashire 21 Jul 1845 10 KEMBLE George Gloucester QS Gloucestershire 1 Jul 1845 10 KERR William Glasgow COJ Scotland 11 Jan 1845 10 KINCAID William George Maidstone QS Kent 15 Oct 1845 10 KING Daniel Chelmsford QS Essex 1 Jul 1845 7 KINGSTON John Liverpool Assizes Lancashire 25 Mar 1843 10 LAKE Benjamin Boston QS Lincoln 13 Oct 1845 15 LAMBERT Robert Ipswich B QS Suffolk 25 Jul 1845 7 LEARY Dennis Clerkenwell QS Middlesex 15 Jul 1845 10 LEE John Doncaster QS Yorkshire 11 Apr 1845 7 LEVETT John Lewes QS Sussex 30 Jun 1845 10 LONG Timothy Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 7 LONG Edward Central Criminal Court London 18 Aug 1845 15 LOVELOCK William Central Criminal Court London 25 Nov 1844 10 LOVETT Thomas Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 7 MADDOCK Alan Exeter City QS Devon 1 Jul 1845 10 MAIN William the younger Wells QS Somerset 25 Mar 1845 10 MALLARD John Northampton QS Northamptonshire 2 Jul 1845 10 MALTBY Samuel Cambridge QS Cambridgeshire 4 Jul 1845 7 MARR John Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 14 MARTIN James Newington QS Surrey 20 Oct 1845 10 MASLEN Thomas Warminster QS Wiltshire 1 Jul 1845 7 MASTERSON Edward Court Martial Barbados 15 Mar 1845 14 MATTHEWS John Richard Dorchester QS Dorset 14 Oct 1845 15 MEECHAM Joseph Bridgwater QS Somerset 1 Jul 1845 10 MEIGHAN Niven Newcastle upon Tyne B QS Northumberland 1 Jan 1845 7 MELDRUM Alexander Aberdeen COJ Scotland 19 Apr 1845 7 MELLISH George Wells QS Somerset 7 Jul 1845 10 McAUSLAN David Liverpool B QS Lancashire 17 Mar 1845 7 McGOWN Walker Glasgow COJ Scotland 6 May 1845 7 McINTOSH Henry Edinburgh COJ Scotland 5 Nov 1845 7 McKENZIE John the younger Aberdeen COJ Scotland 1 Oct 1845 7

16 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Name Where convicted County/Country Date Term McNICOL Angus Stirling COJ Scotland 21 Apr 1845 14 MILLER William Cambridge QS Cambridgeshire 4 Jul 1845 10 MITCHELL Robert Perth COJ Scotland 9 Oct 1845 7 MORGAN William Usk QS Monmouthshire 30 Jun 1845 7 MORRISON Charles Stirling COJ Scotland 11 Sep 1845 7 MOUNT Thomas Arnold Dover Borough QS Kent 17 Jul 1845 7 MULHOLLAND John Liverpool B QS Lancashire 21 Jul 1845 7 MULLIGAN Daniel Newcastle upon Tyne B QS Northumberland 3 Jan 1844 10 MURPHY James Northallerton QS Yorkshire 1 Jul 1845 7 NEWMAN John Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 10 NUTTALL Nether Knutsford QS Cheshire 30 Jun 1845 7 alias LEVER Thomas alias John OGDEN Thomas Bath B QS Somerset 12 Jul 1844 10 OWEN James Central Criminal Court London 25 Nov 1844 10 PADBURY Edwin Gloucester Assizes Gloucestershire 2 Apr 1845 10 PARNHAM Nottingham QS Nottinghamshire 13 Oct 1845 10 alias WARD George alias William PASS Thomas Stafford QS Staffordshire 8 Apr 1845 10 PATTERSON Peter Aberdeen COJ Scotland 1 Oct 1845 7 PEARSON William Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 7 PERRY Central Criminal Court London 18 Aug 1845 7 alias DAVIS Benjamin alias John PHILIPPS Thomas Carew Cardigan Assizes Cardiganshire 25 Jul 1845 7 PITTS Richard Exeter City QS Devon 13 Oct 1845 7 PROFFIT George Stafford Assizes Staffordshire 14 Mar 1845 7 PROTHERO John Usk Assizes Monmouth 31 Jul 1845 7 PYLE John Central Criminal Court London 21 Oct 1844 7 RICHARDS John the younger Gloucester Special Gloucestershire 26 Nov 1844 10 Assize RICHARDSON John Stafford Assizes Staffordshire 27 Jul 1844 15 RICHES Christopher B of Great Yarmouth QS Norfolk 9 Oct 1845 7 RICHES Isaac B of Great Yarmouth QS Norfolk 9 Oct 1845 7 RICKABY David Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland 26 Feb 1845 10 Assizes RIDLEY James Salford GS Lancashire 1 Sep 1845 10 ROUSE John Gloucester QS Gloucestershire 15 Oct 1844 7 ROWLEY James Sheffield QS Yorkshire 12 Sep 1845 7 ROYLE Roger Manchester B QS Lancashire 27 Feb 1845 10 SAYLES George Spilsby QS Lincolnshire 8 Jul 1845 7 SEAMER Thomas Hertford QS Hertfordshire 14 Oct 1844 7 SELWAY Charles Bridgwater QS Somerset 1 Jul 1845 10 SEYMOUR Edinburgh COJ Scotland 13 Mar 1845 7 alias SEEMORE Alexander SIBLEY William Court Martial Bermuda 30 Jul 1844 14 SLADE Thomas Gloucester QS Gloucestershire 1 Jul 1845 7 SMEDLEY William Derby QS Derbyshire 1 Jul 1845 15 SMITH Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 7 alias POWELL James alias Thomas

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 17 Name Where convicted County/Country Date Term SMITH John Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 10 SMITH George Winchester B QS Hampshire 13 Oct 1845 7 SMITH George Stafford Assizes Staffordshire 27 Jul 1844 10 SMITH William Salford GS Lancashire 1 Sep 1845 7 SNELLING William the Newington QS Surrey 26 May 1845 10 younger SPENCER Charles Oxford City QS Oxfordshire 13 Oct 1845 10 SPRAGG William Norwich QS Norfolk 2 Jul 1845 7 STANLEY James Chester Assizes Cheshire 5 Aug 1845 15 STAPLES Robert Bridgwater QS Somerset 1 Jul 1845 10 STARBUCK William Leicester QS Leicestershire 30 Jun 1845 15 STEADMAN Warwick B QS Warwickshire 2 Jul 1845 7 alias SANDERS Charles STEDWELL John Exeter City QS Devon 1 Jul 1845 7 STEPHENS John Hereford QS Herefordshire 8 Jul 1845 10 STEWART John Glasgow COJ Scotland 26 Sep 1845 7 STUDMAN James Bedford QS Bedfordshire 14 Oct 1845 15 STYLES Edward Worcester QS W orcestershire 30 Jun 1845 10 SUTHERN Nether Knutsford QS Cheshire 30 Jun 1845 10 alias SUTHERS John SUTHERLAND Benjamin Edinburgh COJ Scotland 25 Jul 1845 10 SUDELL Joseph Preston QS Lancashire 15 Oct 1845 7 SULLIVAN John Central Criminal Court London 12 May 1845 10 SWEENEY Michael Manchester B QS Lancashire 4 Sep 1845 10 SWINNERTON Thomas Stafford QS Staffordshire 30 Jun 1845 10 SYMES Horsham QS Sussex 3 Jul 1845 10 alias HARBONE Henry alias William SYMONS William Exeter City QS Devon 14 Oct 1844 10 TACEY John Bolton B QS Lancashire 23 Oct 1845 10 TAIT Charles Clerkenwell Sessions Middlesex 10 Jun 1845 7 TANSLEY Reuben Bedford QS Bedfordshire 14 Oct 1845 7 TAYLOR Henry Surrey Assizes Surrey 31 Jul 1844 10 THOMAS Henry Nether Knutsford QS Cheshire 13 Oct 1845 7 THOMPSON Edward Northallerton QS Yorkshire 15 Oct 1844 10 THOMPSON Henry Shipton QS Yorkshire 1 Jul 1845 7 THOMPSON John Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 10 THOMPSON Joseph Liverpool B QS Lancashire 18 Mar 1844 7 THORNTON James Manchester B QS Lancashire 4 Sep 1845 7 THORNTON Henry St Augustine's QS Kent 17 Oct 1845 7 TIPPLE Thomas Clerkenwell Sessions Middlesex 6 May 1845 7 TRAINOR James Salford GS Lancashire 1 Sep 1845 7 TURNER James Shrewsbury QS Shropshire 30 Jun 1845 7 TURNER John Nether Knutsford QS Cheshire 25 Nov 1844 7 WADSWOR John Manchester B QS Lancashire 25 Jun 1845 10 WALDEN John Gloucester Assizes Gloucestershire 14 Aug 1844 7 WALKER William Aylesbury QS Buckinghamshire 1 Jul 1845 10 WALLIS Thomas Portsmouth B QS Hampshire 20 Oct 1845 15 WATKINS James Newington QS Surrey 8 Sep 1845 10 WATSON Thomas St George's Barracks London 7 Jun 1845 7 Court Martial

18 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Name Where convicted County/Country Date Term WENMAN Lewes QS Sussex 25 Sep 1844 7 alias WINDEN James alias Edward WHITE Reuben Bristol QS Gloucestershire 14 Jul 1845 7 WILKINSON James Salford GS Lancashire 1 Sep 1845 7 WILKINSON Thomas Wakefield QS Yorkshire 10 Sep 1845 7 WILLIAMS Arthur Liverpool B QS Lancashire 17 Mar 1845 10 WILLIAMS George Clerkenwell Sessions Middlesex 10 Jun 1845 10 WILLIAMS John Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 10 WILLIAMS John Clerkenwell GS London 12 Aug 1845 7 WILLIAMS John Huntingdon QS Huntingdonshire 13 Oct 1845 10 WILLIAMS John Wells QS Somerset 21 Oct 1844 15 WILSON Durham QS Durham 13 Oct 1845 7 alias WATSON Anderson WILLOUGHBY Samuel Maidstone QS Kent 14 Oct 1845 14 WINDSOR William Central Criminal Court London 14 Sep 1844 10 WOOLSEY William Ipswich QS Sufffolk 17 Oct 1845 15 WRIGHT Benjamin Central Criminal Court London 15 Sep 1845 10 WRIGHT George Assizes for Warwick Warwickshire 6 Aug 1845 10 Division WRIGHT James Oxford QS Oxfordshire 14 Oct 1844 10 alias Timothy WRIGHT James Chelmsford QS Essex 21 May 1844 7 WYNN William Central Criminal Court London 16 Jun 1845 10 YATES John Shrewsbury QS Shropshire 30 Jun 1845 10 YORK George Thomas Shrewsbury QS Shropshire 30 Jun 1845 10

CORRECTION PHONE DIRECTORY The advertised cost of the book The State Reference Service of the published by Robert N. Kellett titled State Library of Tasmania is seeking a A Photographic record of the copy of the southern Tasmanian Descendants of Richard and Phyllis telephone directory for 1997. Hickman in the December 2002 They plan to create a set of telephone journal, on page 198, should read directories (from 1950) for Tasmania $35.00 plus postage. A Photo CD is on microfiche. To film the books they also available containing over 360 need to be pulled apart from their images, in JPG format, of the Hickman bindings. The 1997 directory is the family and their descendants for a only remaining copy they require. further $10.00 (postage free if Once produced the microfiche will be purchased with book). available for use in the larger city libraries of the State Library. As book supplies are now limited, If you can help please email (prefer- those wishing to purchase copies ably) or phone to check if it is still should contact the author to determine needed. Sue Webster Librarian State availability. Reference Service The public response will determine if [email protected] further publications are printed. Phone (03) 6223 7499.

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 19 PORT ARTHUR MUSTER 10 AUGUST 2003

OR some time the Port Arthur available to assist with Historic Site Management queries, and a F Authority has been considering genealogical software having a day whereby we invite display. descendants of those who came through The main focus of the day Port Arthur to visit, meet others and will be to make informal share information on their ancestors. contact with descendants Some may recall the Isle of the Dead of those who passed Remembrance Day held a number of through Port Arthur penal years ago, and the idea is to do settlement—whether des- something similar, but with additional cendants of free people, or convicts. activities. After some discussion we have decided that this year, being the We meet many descendants of convicts through our enquiry service, and a flyer 150th anniversary year of the end of advertising the Port Arthur Muster will transportation to Van Diemen’s Land, would be a good time to hold this special be mailed out shortly to all known descendants, but there would be many day. more of whom we are not aware. Even The date we are looking at is Sunday 10 if you may not be able to visit Port August 2003. It marks the day that Arthur on the day, the establishment of a celebrations were held throughout the Port Arthur Descendants Group will take colony commemorating the end of place, giving us the opportunity to put transportation, as well as the jubilee people in touch with each other for the celebration of the founding of the sharing of information on common colony. ancestors, as well as to receive news The programme of events will include from Port Arthur. the launching of a public access terminal If you are a descendant and your providing access to lists of Port Arthur ancestor came through Port Arthur, and convicts, an exhibition and short talk by would like more information on the Port Professor Michael Roe on the Cessation Arthur Muster, please contact Susan of Transportation, as well as talks by Hood by email: Maree Ring and Susan Hood on search- [email protected] or by ing for the records of one’s convict phoning (03) 6251 2324. ancestors and how to transcribe them. A limited edition replica of the Cessation We look forward to seeing you on 10 August 2003. of Transportation medal is being created for the day, and representatives of Susan Hood Tasmanian Family History Society of Resource Centre Coordinator Tasmania Inc., the Archives Office of Resource Library Tasmania, the Tasman Peninsula Port Arthur Historic Site Historical Society and Church of Jesus Port Arthur TAS 7184  Christ of Latter Day Saints will be

20 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 THE LADY NELSON—HER STORY Jonathan Davis

HE Lady Nelson was built at Mr assist in the charting of the coastline. DEADMAN’s Yard, Deptford, After damaging herself on the corals of T England, and launched on 13 the Great Barrier Reef, she had to turn November 1798. She was 52 feet 6 back to Sydney, necessitating Flinders to inches (16.18m.) long with a maximum continue alone. beam of 17 feet 2 inches (5.3m.), and Under the command of Lieutenant weighed 60 tons (61.4 tonnes). A small George CURTOYS, Lady Nelson in vessel even by contemporary standards, company with the Porpoise, set out from she earned herself Sydney in June the nickname of 1803 for the River ‘HMS Tinderbox’. Derwent in Van As His Majesty’s Diemen’s Land, in Armed Survey order to establish Vessel, the Lady the first European Nelson set sail for occupation of what the fledgling colony is now Tasmania. of New South Wales However, bad in March 1800, weather was under the command experienced and of Lieutenant James GRANT. It was on both ships returned to Sydney. this voyage of eight months duration that A second attempt was made in August she became the first ship to sail in a 1803, when the Lady Nelson left Sydney westerly direction through Bass Strait, in company with the chartered whaler thus initiating the shorter route from Albion, with Lieutenant John BOWEN on England to Port Jackson. The first board, who was to be Lieutenant- landfall of that part of the continent Governor of the new settlement. Again which became South Australia, was bad weather was experienced and the entered into her log during that voyage, Lady Nelson suffered some damage but and for the next twenty-five years, continued on, and arrived in the Derwent through a series of pioneering voyages on 5 September 1803. The Albion arrived she carved an important niche for herself five days later, having sheltered in Oyster in Australian maritime history. Bay, and having spent the time capturing Between November 1801 and March and killing three sperm whales. The Lady 1802, under the command of Lieutenant Nelson spent three weeks at the new John MURRAY, the Lady Nelson Risdon Cove settlement before returning explored Bass Strait and most of King to Sydney. Island, and it was during that voyage that January 1804 saw the Lady Nelson with Port Phillip was discovered and explored. Lieutenant James SYMONS in command Between July and November 1802, she at Port Dalrymple on the River Tamar, in accompanied the Investigator (under northern Van Diemen’s Land. Here the Lieutenant Matthew FLINDERS) north to estuary was explored by a survey party

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 21 from the Lady Nelson. It was during this The year 1819 saw her in use again for survey that the site of the future survey work. Following a survey of Port settlement of Launceston was noted on a Macquarie it was decided to establish a map. Following this the Lady Nelson settlement there, and two years later the crossed Bass Strait to Port Phillip, where Lady Nelson, in attempting to go to sea David COLLINS had established his first from this port, was driven onto the rocks, settlement, near the present site of where she became a wreck with the tides Sorrento. Unhappy there, he transferred flowing through her. By 1824 she was to southern Van Diemen’s Land with the again in commission, as she accompanied Lady Nelson and the Ocean, arriving in HMS Tamar from Sydney to Melville the Derwent River in February 1804. Island in the Northern Territory to form a Dissatisfied with the Risdon Cove settlement. This was the settlement of settlement, Collins moved the settlement Fort Dundas, the first British settlement to Sullivan’s Cove, to establish what was in Northern Australia. On her second trip to become Hobart Town. from the new settlement in 1825 in search In October 1804 the Lady Nelson along of supplies, she called into the island of with Buffalo, Francis and Integrity set Baba, where the crew made fun of one of out for Port Dalrymple. At Port the native girls, and were subsequently Dalrymple Lieutenant-Colonel PAT- murdered by the natives. The ship was TERSON established the first settlement run ashore and burned. One of the Lady in northern Van Diemen’s Land. The Nelson’s guns is, today, still in the Lady Nelson spent seven weeks making a possession of the Islanders. thorough survey of the River Tamar. (Extracts from Jonathan Davis, The Lady In 1806, the Lady Nelson made a voyage Nelson Story. 1988) to New Zealand to return Maori Chief TE-PAHI to his homeland. On board was a cargo of timber and bricks to build what Irene Schaffer may have been the first European house (Member No. 591) in New Zealand. The new Lady Nelson is a full sized On 28 November 1807, the Lady Nelson replica of the original, built to present day arrived in the Derwent with the first of safety standards, as laid down by the 700 settlers from Norfolk Island. She Department of Navigation and Survey. It later made two more voyages, the first to was built at Woodbridge in Tasmania and Hobart Town in 1808, and the second to launched in 1988. The Lady Nelson Port Dalrymple in 1813. The new arrivals commenced operations in 1989 manned were settled at Sandy Bay, New Town, entirely by volunteers. The years New Norfolk, Clarence Plains and between 1990 and 1996 saw a period of Longford. escalating debt after a policy of payment During 1811 and 1812 the little brig was introduced, and the ship spent most conveyed Governor MACQUARIE to of each year out of Tasmanian waters. Van Diemen’s Land for his famous tour An attempt to sell the vessel to clear the of inspection. Macquarie’s opinion of the debt was thwarted by the Friends of the Lady Nelson was that it was ‘The best Lady Nelson Group. In June 1996 the and safest boat he had ever sailed’. Lady Nelson returned to Tasmania and commenced sail training and also an

22 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 educational programme as a totally volunteer operation. In 1998 the Lady HOME SOUGHT FOR Nelson competed in the Tall Ships Race PHOTOGRAPHS from Sydney to Hobart. In January 2001 the final debt clearance payment was made. The Lady Nelson continues to operate successfully with all crewing, maintenance and office work being carried out by volunteers. There is strong demand for the vessel, with weekend harbour sailing, short and extended charters, and crew training days. growing number of primary schools are bringing classes aboard for one and a half hour charters on the river. Secondary schools, Scouting organisations etc. are chartering the ship for journeys of several days duration, during which time they are provided with the experience of traditional sailing, the challenge of the elements, teamwork, and the fellowship of the sea. The Lady Nelson is also in demand interstate to celebrate the important bicentenary events now occurring. The vessel visited South Edward Arthur Pacey Australia in December 2000, Churchill Island in March 2001, and Port Phillip in home is sought for two February 2002. The Lady Nelson is portraits etched on glass Tasmania’s Tall Ship, and a functional (370mm x 270mm) of Edward reminder of Tasmania’s beginnings. A Arthur PACEY of Lenah Valley. The Lady Nelson will sail on the River Edward, known as Arthur, was born on Derwent during September 2003 to 4 February 1886 and died on commemorate the bicentenary of her 16 November 1954. He married Ida arrival in 1803. Those wishing to take May HICKMAN on 6 September 1911 part in this historical event can obtain and they had one daughter Hilda (Mrs more information from Irene Schaffer, Jack WILLIAMS). phone (03) 6272 2124 or by email on All members of Arthur’s family are [email protected] now deceased, and these portraits need A journal kept by Lieutenant Grant and to be reunited with an interested family the log by Lieutenant Curtoys can be member or close friend. Any person viewed on the Lady Nelson website: wishing to obtain these portraits should http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/ contact Robert Kellett. ladynel  Phone (03) 6272 7585 

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 23 A BRIEF HISTORY OF CLAN LESLIE J. Barrie Leslie

RADITION says that the Founder Leslie is that the Hungarian story is the of Clan LESLIE was Bartolf, or as correct version. T he is also known, Bartholomew. Be that as it may, either Bartolf or his son He was said to be a Hungarian nobleman Malcolm was given grants of land in whose father was Walter de LESHLIN, Aberdeen, Angus, Fife, Mar and the descended from Almos, one of the nine Meams. The story is that King Malcolm Hungarian Dukes who invaded Hungary. promised Bartolf that wherever he had to It is said that he came to Scotland in stop to rest and feed his horse, he would 1067, in the retinue of Princess Agatha, be given, in hereditary right, all the land mother of Edgar the Atheling and his within a radius of one mile. Finally his sisters, Margaret and Christina, who were horse collapsed in the Garioch in fleeing from the Court of William the Aberdeenshire. Bartolf rode back to King Bastard of Normandy, or as he is known, Malcolm at Dunfermline and reported to the Conqueror. the King that: Between a lesse ley and the The Scottish King Malcolm III mair my horse it tyred and stopped ‘Caenmor’ was much taken by the beauty (‘Lesse’ means sheltered, ‘ley’ a pasture of Margaret, and after his wife Ingiborge and ‘mair’ the sea) to which the King is disappeared from the scene, Malcolm III said to have answered: Lord Lessley and Margaret married. Meanwhile shall thou be and thine heirs after thee. Malcolm III had promised his sister The site of the present Leslie Castle is the Beatrix, in marriage to Bartolf and they third building on the site, with the present were married in 1070. Malcolm III was Castle being more or less what the Castle also supposed to have made Bartolf the was, when it was rebuilt by the FORBES Governor of Edinburgh Castle. family of Leslie Castle, in the early There is another school of thought, which 1660s. The Castle was purchased in the says that Bartolf was a Flemish nobleman early 1980s, in a very dilapidated con- who came to Scotland with Maude de dition by David Carnegie Leslie and his LENS of Boulogne, when she came to wife Leslie of Aberdeen, and restored to Scotland to marry King David I ‘the the condition that it is today. The present Saint’, about 1114. It is said that Maude day Castle is the site of the first grant of de Lens was accompanied by many of her land to Bartolf or Malcolm. It is unclear kinsmen of the House of Boulogne and whether the original grant was to Bartolf they were the progenitors of many of the or Malcolm, as the grant was made by Scottish clans. These included amongst David Earl of Huntingdon, brother to others, SETON, HAY, ABERNETHY, King William The Lion, to Malcolm filio CAMERON, FRASER, AND LESLIE. Bartholff totam terram Suam de Lessly Until more research is carried out and Sicut (Malcolm son of Bartholf). The more records come to light, it is im- copiers have dated it to 1171–1199, due possible to say which version is correct. to Malcolm, Bishop of Aberdeen being The Chief of Clan Leslie, the 21st Earl of the only witness to the document who Rothes, says the official position of Clan could be identified by the copiers.

24 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Leslies have played many important roles in Scottish history, such as Sir Andrew Leslie who was one of the eight Earls The Examiner Index who signed the Declaration of Arbroath Obituaries and Funerals and Bishop of Ross, John Leslie, 1941–1950 champion of Mary Queen of Scots. Of the early Earls of Rothes, many were Obituaries and Funerals 1951–1960 active in government, such as John 7th Earl who became Lord High Chancellor These are the first two publications of Scotland and was created a Duke. in the series

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26 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 SURPRISES !! Kate Carlisle

VERY family history researcher mother. It has an address on the back. I longs for unexpected surprises! hope we will now be able to locate them E I wonder if researchers in 2050 and discover other branches of our will be thrilled by the discovery of letters family. or other documents written by or about us This discovery reminded me of the way I in 2003. What information will they felt when I was given some other very glean from our words and how will they special letters. I was given them on interpret our remarks? I haven't behalf of the HOOK family. In a box, handwritten a letter in years. Have you? which had been stored in a garage in Although I’ve been researching my Hobart since 1946, were James Hook’s family history for over five years now, I original will and a letter written by John am still not averse to the excited buzz one Hook (convict) to his son James Hook, gets with the discovery of a totally after his wedding to Jane MILROY in unexpected piece of information or 1852. memorabilia. Just as interest begins to wane and dead ends seem to appear too Also in the box were four letters written at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1797 and 1803. often, a tempting morsel turns up and off They are in amazingly good condition I go again. I have considered myself very fortunate to have had my fair share of considering that they are 200 years old. The most significant letter was written in such ‘treasures’ in my time. October 1797 by William Milroy to his It happened to me again recently! fiancée Johanna CARNOCHAN before My 85 year old father is moving to a they were married in Stranraer. They had retirement village shortly, and has started one daughter before coming to Hobart to clean out some of the cupboards in a and their daughter Jane was born at sea spare bedroom. I doubt if they had been on the Strathfieldsay. Jane married James touched since my parents moved into that Hook in Hobart and they were my great house 30 years ago. My father’s mother, great grandparents. as a girl, had visited relatives in Preslau, It is truly amazing to be able to read and Germany in 1911. She had corresponded touch a letter my great great great with those relatives every Christmas until grandfather wrote over 200 years ago in she died in 1979. We had no luck trying Scotland. He was not well educated and to locate the family. Some members of it was difficult to decipher the letter. The our family even visited Germany without other letters were written by Joanna success. In an envelope with a photo of a Carnochan's sisters. They were neatly group of passengers on the S.S. Grosser written by obviously well-educated Kurfurst on which the KOERBIN family women. They are incredibly well pre- travelled to Germany and a very faded served considering their age, and the fact photo of my grandmother nursing my that no special effort was made to father when he was one month old in conserve them for posterity. 1917, was the last airmail letter the Can you help? German family had written to my grand-

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 27 Have you any such ‘treasures’ at your place that were written by convict MY FAMILY HISTORY Ashlee Carpenter-Gregory (aged 9) women? In an effort to paint a picture of life in the Female House of Correction at found out that my great Granma Cascades, a collection of letters by and (Nanny’s mother), knew my Nan, about our convict ancestors will be dev- (Dad’s mum), but my great Granma eloped to tell the stories of the women I died before I could ask her about Nan. without whom we would not be here My Nan’s name was Keiva Jane Gregory. today. She died before I was born. I want to All the people involved with the Female find out a bit about her. Factory Historic Site are delighted with My Nan died 15 May 1988. She had the response received so far as a result of cancer. She was the eldest of six. Dad my article, My Great Great Granny was a was 15 when Nan (his mother) died. Dad Convict–was yours? in the September and I went to her grave. Dad doesn’t talk 2002 issue. So far we have recorded and about her much. Her grave is in Forcett. filed over 100 names and we’re still I had an uncle, he died when he was born, counting. Many thanks! not sure how long he lived for. His grave The year 2003 looks like being very is in Forcett too. His name was Jonathon, exciting for us, as we look forward to the he died about 1987. purchase of the Matron’s Cottage and the My Nan’s Mum was Jessie McDougall setting up of a resources centre, and also she died in August 1978, her father Gerry the establishment of a ‘Friends of the died in 1964. Gerry worked at the PMGs Female Factory’ group. Department with my [maternal] great Pop Further information can be found on our (Colin), and that is how they got to be Website www.femalefactory.com.au or good friends. They used to play cricket by phoning us on (03) 6223 1559  together in the Tasmanian Postal Institute team against other state Institute teams. Jessie and Gerry used to live at Lewisham. We’re not quite sure where he died except we know he died in 1964. Jessie died in her sleep at Lewisham. The next-door neighbours knew where the key was and went in because the blinds weren’t put up. They went in and she was dead in bed. If you know anything about my family please contact the editor. 

[Ashlee’s Nan, who lived at Dodges Ferry after her marriage, was Keiva Jane Gregory (nee McDougall) – Ed.]

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32 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 GEORGE VAN DIEMEN Rosemary Brown

IS private life aside, Lieutenant- apparently they were not enough, for Governor William SORELL was child enslavement continued to take place H held by contemporaries to be a in the more remote areas. Nineteenth man of integrity, and a capable civil and century historian John West referred over military administrator. Over the years no thirty years later to the ‘incredible evidence has come to light to refute this wickedness’ of the crime and noted: judgment. The sentiments of Governor Sorell are His duties included locating land suitable honourable to his character, and cannot for grants and recommending appli- be doubted; but we are startled to find, cants—the recommendations had to go to that when charges, so solemnly imputed, the governor in Sydney for final approval. must have been founded on particular He scouted for land conscientiously, facts, no equal punishment seems to have making many explorations into unknown overtaken the crimes proclaimed. The country and was influential in obtaining government disapproved of oppression, grants for the growing number of settlers but it was either too weak, or too indolent 3 who were arriving with enough capital to to visit the guilty. make a start in the colony. The capture of two Aboriginal children in Taking over the land was incompatible March 1819 had prompted Sorell to issue with achieving sound relations with the the proclamation, his strongest yet against Aborigines, but Sorell appears to have the practice of child-stealing and other made every effort to follow acts of violence perpetrated on the blacks MACQUARIE’s order to ‘Conciliate the by the settlers and their servants. He was Friendship and Good Will of the to become personally concerned with the Natives’.1 In a particularly strong welfare of one of those children. proclamation in 1819, he condemned the Before I started exploring family history outrages perpetrated against the all I knew of this was that Sorell had sent Aborigines by those whites who an Aboriginal boy called George Van ‘sometimes wantonly fire at and kill the Diemen to England to learn to be a leader men and at others [other times] pursue the of his people; I knew little else, except women, for the purpose of compelling that the boy died soon after his return. them to abandon their children’.2 Most of Each time I came across a mention of it in the children, if they survived, became some article or other, I wondered little more than slaves. momentarily about Sorell’s intentions, In the early years of colonisation very and later as I prepared to find out more I few Aborigines would have realised the wondered again. However prejudiced he relentlessness of the force that was might have been as a nineteenth-century stealing the land from them, but robbery Englishman (bound by the times in which of their children was an outrage demand- he lived, as we all are) and a loyal civil ing instant retaliation and was a major servant, he surely must have realised that cause of conflict. Although Sorell’s when the boy returned after years of proclamation contained strict orders being far removed from his people and designed to put an end to the practice, their struggle, he would be alienated from

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 33 them, certainly not in a position to ‘lead’ He authorised Kermode, once in England, them. to place the child with someone fit to Then I read in some Aboriginal ensure good treatment and education. So educational material: ‘George Van it came about that George spent most of Diemen was a young Aboriginal boy who his five years in England in the care of a ... was sent to England as an experiment dissenting minister in Lancashire. In 1823 to see whether he could be educated to a friend of the minister wrote to Sorell of live like an Englishman.’4 Further George: reading, notably of Plomley’s Friendly His gratitude and affection surprises me 5 Mission, convinced me that the project more than anything as I gave them no had indeed been conceived as an credit for any such feeling, but George experiment and I concluded that history has never seen any one yet he loves so had been obscured yet again—in this case much as his Governor though he calls Mr in order to throw a better light on Sorell, Greatbatch [the minister] Father he still or rather, what he stood for. The story of adds his Governor is his best friend. He George Van Diemen began to take shape. has written a few lines to you ... an event In 1819 a boy aged about six, of the Big which has given him great pleasure I trust River tribe, was ‘found’ in the bush near poor little fellow he will continue to do New Norfolk along with a baby thought well, at present he gives every one hope 7 to be his brother. The baby died soon and satisfaction ... afterwards and Sorell took the boy, who George spent the last part of his stay in came to be known as George Van England with a John BRADLEY of Diemen, to live under his care at Liverpool. At the end of that time Government House. In 1821 Sorell made Bradley wrote to Kermode, who was on arrangements with prominent settler another visit to England and was Robert KERMODE for the latter to take preparing to take George back to Van George to England to be educated. Diemen’s Land with him. After referring Sorell wrote to Kermode: to George’s good memory and general intelligence, he remarked: ‘I apprehend George ... has ... been taught his letters, the blacks ... (on all parts of the globe) ... and his prayers, but though he has will keep pace with the whites, for colour become obedient and tractable, and is neither impairs the muscles nor enervates weaned from his wandering habits, and is even tolerably cleanly, very little the mind.’ He concluded: expansion of intellect is yet perceptible. I I also pray that our Nation may be just as believe also that he ... would not take it is great and secure to George a portion anything except to eat; with respect to of the land that gave him birth; that our which I am afraid he is open to Rulers may in this instance be governed temptation. by Justice, let the Native have what the voice of reason and equity adjudge to I believe only one native boy from this him, and not let power supercede right.8 Island has yet been taken home, [a child who died soon after arriving in England] George, now about fourteen, returned and as the experiment of instructing and home with Kermode in 1827. He was civilising a being of a race so little sent to a school in Liverpool Street, known, may attract ... notice ... in your Hobart Town, run by a Thomas STONE great liberal and enlightened Town, I am and died ten months later. So far I have very happy of this occasion of trying it.6 been unable to find out any details about

34 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 those last ten months. Aboriginal people as well as some kind of There are of course many gaps in the voluntary refuge for them at Kangaroo story. For example, when Sorell returned Point. I do not know how successful to England in 1824, did he visit George, these arrangements were or for how long or at least find out how he was faring? they lasted, or any other details. He also Once he had decided on the ‘experiment’ laid the groundwork for a school for and handed George over to Kermode, I orphans, which was to become think Sorell might have sighed with relief established as the King’s (later the and put the matter out of his mind. Queen’s) Orphanage in 1828, three years Obviously George was treated well in the after his departure. Over a period of nearly two years he lived at Government some twenty years, about thirty House and it seems he developed a great Aboriginal children were taken from what affection for the ‘Governor’. However a was left of their people and sent to the six-year-old who is suddenly removed Orphan School, as it was generally called, from his mother and home and placed in to learn the European way of life. a completely alien world will never The state of race relations in Australia recover completely from the grief and can only be appreciated if the European shock of separation, especially if the arrival and ‘settlement’ is seen for what it process is repeated in some way, which is was—an invasion. For the newcomers what happened to George. For at only acquired the land without attempting to eight years of age he was removed again establish treaties/agreements with its from all that was familiar, or had become indigenous inhabitants, justifying the familiar, and sent far across the seas to takeover with the pretence that it (the begin yet another new life with a new set land) was ‘terra nullius’—that is, it of white strangers. belonged to no one. A profound lack of Whatever the circumstances of George’s respect for the blacks and a belief in the separation from his people, once it had superiority of the whites were intrinsic in happened there, was almost certainly no the process of colonisation. These way of restoring him to them and Sorell attitudes flourished well into the probably did the best he could by taking twentieth century, when they were the boy into his own home. But for checked but by no means eliminated by reasons I have touched on, I cannot say the 1992 Mabo High Court decision the same of his action in sending George which threw out the doctrine of terra ‘home’ to England. Although he must nullius as it applied to Australia. have been hard-pressed to find a solution, Removal of children from their families surely he could have arranged for George accounted for a large part of the suffering to remain in the now relatively familiar the whites imposed on blacks. Until surroundings of Hobart Town. There he 1970, many thousands of children were would have had the chance of being in taken from their families, a great number contact with other displaced Abori- of them in the 1940s and 1950s as a result gines—perhaps people from the Big of contemporary government assimilation River tribe to which he belonged, or even policies—those with noticeably white from his own Leenowwenne family group ancestry being especially targeted.9 The who lived in the New Norfolk area. practice was not widely questioned until Sorell did in fact provide a meeting place, 1997, when the Human Rights and Equal a house in Hobart Town, for displaced Opportunity Commission issued its report

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 35 Bringing Them Home.10 Until then main- would have suffered in this way, as stream Australians had vaguely assumed would the handful of other indigenous that white intentions were good and that children of Van Diemen’s Land who the children had on the whole benefited. were, like him, raised ‘successfully’ by Among other things the report whites. I think I comprehend much of recommended that Australian parlia- their pain, but my mind cannot seem to ments, police forces and churches should engage properly with the fate of the acknowledge their responsibility and majority—the little brothers and sisters apologise to everyone affected by forcible who were stolen to be treated outright as removal. The Tasmanian government slaves and subjected not only to carried out the recommendation, as did separation but also to unimaginable the other states and various police forces brutality and abuse. and churches, but the Prime Minister11 Sorell predicted in 1819 that the consistently baulked at making an Aborigines would eventually retaliate on apology on behalf of federal parliament. a large and systematic scale if even a Another recommendation was that small proportion of whites continued to financial compensation be made to people criminally mistreat them. By the end of who were forcibly removed as children. his term in Van Diemen’s Land in 1824, The government also sheered away from the scene was set: due in no small way to this, maintaining that it could prove to be his own efforts, there had been a steady far too costly. influx of settlers and a corresponding The children who were taken from their opening up of extensive areas of land for families in the 20th century, many of them to farm, land which until then had them still alive, have come to be called been prime Aboriginal hunting grounds; ‘the stolen generation’ (often now, more and the ongoing transportation of accurately, ‘generations’). In 2000 the convicts meant that servants were in good Prime Minister and the Minister for supply. Isolated conflicts that had Aboriginal Affairs raised a nationwide continued sporadically began to change in storm by maintaining there is no such character and become more general as the ‘generation’ and in any case the children Aboriginal resistance became more were not ‘stolen’ but ‘separated’ by well- organised. intentioned authorities, with no racist Thus the Black War was set to begin at intent. They criticised Bringing Them the time of Sorell’s departure from Van Home for being based mainly on stories Diemen’s Land. He wrote a long and relying on personal memory and therefore comprehensive report on the condition of uncheckable, and rejected its estimation the colony for his replacement, George of the numbers involved. Arthur; that is, it was comprehensive Whether the children were taken except for one thing—it failed even to according to government policy or not, as mention Aborigines.  in Sorell’s time, the results were on the whole tragic. Even the ones who Endnotes were/are considered to have been 1 Macquarie to Sorell, 1817, HRA, Series III, successfully reared in the white com- Vol IV, p.187 munity suffer/suffered through alienation 2 The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, ‘Government and General Orders’, from family, identity and heritage. March 13, 1819 Facsimile Edition of Vols. It is clear from George’s story that he III & IV, 1967.

36 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 3 John West, The History of Tasmania, Henry Dowling, Launceston, Tasmania, 1852 TASMANIAN BIGAMIST Facsimile Editions, Adelaide, 1966, p.11. Helen Harris OAM 4 Heather Felton et al, Living with the Land, Book Two: Resistance, Department of HILE researching the police Education and the Arts, Tasmania, 1989, p.8 files in Victoria I came across 5 N.J.B. Plomley (Ed.), Friendly Mission, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, W this interesting story. Halstead Press, New South Wales, 1966. William Thomas BAYNTON married 6 AOT, CSO 1/37/658. Sorell to William Alicia Ellen McGINTY in 1915, in Kermode, 15 September 1821. Melbourne. She was 20 years old, the 7 AOT, CSO 1/40/734 Grose to Sorell, 21 daughter of James and Annabella née August 1825. McCALMAN. Baynton was in the AIF 8 AOT, CSO 1/37/658, John Bradley to in Melbourne, and was arrested on a Kermode, 13 September 1826. charge of bigamy, being already married. 9 Much has been made of the fact that some Aboriginal women rejected, or were He broke out of the cell at pressured by their own people into rejecting, Broadmeadows and disappeared, and their fairer-skinned babies (often the result of police were called in to investigate the outright rape) and gave them up ‘willingly’ case. His first marriage was to Rosetta to the authorities. As a result not only those Lucy THORPE in 1911 at Kingston, children, but also many who had been taken forcibly, were told as they became older that Tasmania. Baynton was the son of they had been rejected by their mothers. William James and Florence Eleanor née 10 Bringing Them Home, Report of the National LUCAS, and had been born at Kingston. Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and He and Rosetta had two children, and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their there is a photograph of the two children Families, Commonwealth of Australia, 1997. on the file, as well as copies of both The Inquiry was conducted by Mick Dodson marriage certificates. and Sir Ronald Wilson. 11 John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia Baynton was not found, but in 1917 since 1996. police re-activated the case. It was reported that Rosetta had been receiving Editor’s note letters from Baynton, and had just left This is a chapter from a book about Rosemary Tasmania for New Zealand. It was Brown’s ancestors, and from a section about their contacts and dealings with Tasmanian Aboriginal believed that he had gone to New Zealand people. Rosemary is a descendant of William in 1917 and from there enlisted and Sorell, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s served overseas. Land from 1817–1824. There are twenty-two pages in the file, which will be found in VPRS 807 Inwards Correspondence to the Chief Commissioner of Police, Unit 550, File V3870 of 1917 and 4245 of 1915. This material is held at the Public Record Office in Melbourne. 

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 37 THE QUERIES PAGE Christine Woods (Member No. 1096)

O you submit queries to the family which comprised the family of Queries pages in Tasmanian George and Elizabeth Stevens, and then D Ancestry? I hadn’t until recent- after Elizabeth’s death, the family of ly, and only then because of a request George and his second wife, Mary Ann from Leonie Mickleborough, Editor of (nee McNAMARA). Pat told me that she Tasmanian Ancestry, who was looking had a Mary Ann Stevens in her family for queries ‘to help fill up the pages’. history but she had no idea where she had I sat down and put together four queries come from and wouldn’t it be interesting concerning various branches of my if she was the Mary Ann Stevens in my family, emailed them off to Leonie and family. My question was, ‘Who did she told her to use them when she had a gap marry?’ Her reply was, ‘John that needed filling. An email from her McDONALD’ and my reply, ‘Bingo’ (or confirmed that they had been received words to that effect). and that she would probably use two in Our relationship to each other is quite the next edition of the journal. Just complicated. Maria Vincent is my great before the next edition was posted out great grandmother from her relationship Leonie told me that she had used all my with Charles Doyle and for Pat she is her queries in the March 2003 edition. great grandmother from her marriage to My copy of Tasmanian Ancestry was in James Phillips. On the Stevens side of my mailbox on Tuesday morning—a the family, Pat is a great great grand- check confirmed that all my queries were daughter of George Stevens from his first included and my contact details were marriage and I am a great great correct. I thought no more about it until granddaughter from his second marriage. the following Sunday morning when I For the statistically minded our answered the phone at home. Pat, a relationship is interpreted by my family member of THFS was ringing about my history computer program as: through DOYLE/VINCENT/PHILLIPS entry and Maria Vincent we are half second cousins told me that George Barclay Phillips was once removed and through George her grandfather. The Doyle/Vincent/Phillips Stevens we are half third cousins. family tree is a tree with a few secret branches and central to these branches is Are you confused? So are Pat and I, but the matriarch, Maria Vincent (aka Maria or whatever our relationship, we are looking Mary Leo) and her arrival in Tasmania. forward to sharing our mutual interest of family history and sharing family stories Having established that Pat was a and information. descendant of Maria’s second family, the Phillips family, I told her that I was a Have you sent any items for the queries descendant of Maria’s first family, the column to Tasmanian Ancestry? Take Doyles. Pat had been told that some my advice and try it—you have nothing where in the family there were con- to lose and relatives to gain. nections to the Doyle family but had no Now, is anyone related to my ELLIS idea that Maria was the mother of them. family, my HILL family? Read the Another of my queries in Tasmanian March 2003 Tasmanian Ancestry, the Ancestry had been for the STEVENS details are in there! 

38 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 TASMANIAN PLACE NAMES Susan L. Waters Reprinted from Tasmanian Ancestry Volume 2 No 1 (March 1981) pp.19–22.

HANGES in place names can the sketchiest of maps, they opened up present difficulties for anyone previously undiscovered or little known C trying to trace his or her family country. They usually named features history. If you had Tasmanian ancestors and localities by drawing upon the names who came from Rumney’s Huts, Cabbage of prominent citizens from the United Tree Hill, Shepton Montacute or Snake Kingdom or elsewhere. For example, the Plains, would you know where to start surveyors employed by the Van Diemens looking for the records of your family? Land Company commemorated How often have you looked on a map prominent members of the Company in only to find these and many other towns names such as Bischoff, River Inglis and and localities don’t seem to exist any the River Cam.3 The first wave of more. Hours of fruitless searching can be settlers, often unaware of their work, avoided if you are aware of these changes gave their name to different localities, for (or at least know where to look to find out example, the town of Baden (in the about them). Oatlands municipality) was formerly Most people are aware of the change known as Rumney’s Huts, com- from Van Diemen’s Land, the name memorating an early settler who erected a 4 associated with all the alleged brutalities crude dwelling in the area. of the convict system, to ‘the sweet one Frequently the names of pioneers or the of Tasmania’.1 How many people, names of their properties became place however, are aware of the many different names. Sometimes this meant that a names for the township and locality of given locality had more than one name, Scottsdale. In 1840, after James Scott, or the same name was used for more than the Government Surveyor, explored the one locality. north-east of Tasmania and selected land The development of a state wide postal in the area, it became now as Scott’s New system created a need for standardization. 2 Country. Other new early names for the Localities were often given a special area include Cox’s Paradise, com- postal name, or else generally accepted memorating Thomas Cox, one of the first local names became standardized. In settlers in the area; and Tucker’s Corner, 1912 Point Rapid, West Bay and named after Thomas Tucker who first Blackwood Hills became known as settled in the area in 1859. The town was Rowella as the Post Master General’s officially known as Ellesmere until 1893. Department [now Australia Post] felt the In that year the name was changed to need for a common postal name for the Scottsdale in honour of the first surveyor area. in the area. Other towns and localities However, the former names still persist as have similar histories of name changes. the names of local landmarks.5 In other Tasmanian nomenclature owes much to cases such as that of Beltana, a name the work of the early surveyors and change was made because there was a explorers. Usually, armed with little but duplication of the name with a town in

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 39 South Australia. So, in 1903, Beltana Street Hobart. The Board has a register became Lindisfarne. of all officially recognized place names in The establishment of a Nomenclature Tasmania and this contains a considerable Board was important in the collation, amount of information on the dates and authorization and spelling of both old and background to place name changes. new names. The Board is a satellite body [The board’s address has been updated. of the Lands Department.6 It is located The preferred means of contact is now by on the eighth floor of the Lands email.–Ed] Nomenclature.Office Department Building, 134 Macquarie @dpiwe.tas.gov.au

FORMER NAME7 MUNICIPALITY CURRENT NAME APPROXIMATE DATE OF CHANGE8 Adam’s River Field Hamilton Adamsfield Altmoor Flinders Ranga9 post 1900 Back River New Norfolk Magra 1912 Badger Plains Ulverstone Ulverstone pre 1900 Baker's Huon Lucaston 1909* Rivulet/Creek Beachside Hobart Lower Sandy Bay pre 1900 Beltana Clarence Lindisfarne 1903 Bismarck Glenorchy Collinsvale 1915-1916 Black Sugar Loaf Westbuiry Birralee 1915 Blackwood Hills Beaconsfield Rowella 1912 Bradshaw's Creek Ringarooma Pioneer 1955 (1909*) Brandy Creek Beaconsfield Beaconsfield pre 1900 Brothers Home Ringarooma Derby pre 1900 Mine Cabbage Tree Hill Beaconsfield pre 1900 Beaconsfield The Camp Scottsdale Lyndhurst pre 1900 Cascades Tasman Koonya pre 1900 Cherry Tree Sorell Pawleena pre 1900 Opening Chestnut Deloraine Meander 1909* Cloverdale Fingal Upper Esk c1949 Copper Alley Bay Port Cygnet Lymington pre 1900 Cotton Ulverstone Ulverstone pre 1900 Cox's Paradise Scottsdale Scottsdale pre 1900 Cross Marsh Green Ponds Melton Mowbray pre 1900 Daniel’s Bay Bruny10 Lunawanna c1909 Detention Circular Head Rocky Cape post 1909 Derwent New Norfolk Bushy Park post 1909 Du Cane Ringarooma Tomahawk post 1900 Elizabeth (Town) New Norfolk New Norfolk pre 1900 Ellesmere Scottsdale Scottsdale 1893-1894 Fat Doe River Bothwell Bothwell pre 1900

40 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Forester’s Hill Beaconsfield Notley Hills c1950 Formby Devonport Devonport 1890 Gordon Plains Evandale Evandale pre 1900 Green Point Brighton Bridgewater 1900* Green Water Holes Green Ponds Kempton pre 1900 Green Water Ponds Green Ponds Kempton pre 1900 Gregson Clarence Otago post 1909 Heidelberg Latrobe Harford 1900 Hollow Tree Clarence Cambridge pre 1900 Honeysuckle Evandale Evandale c1820 Honeywood Esperance Geeveston pre 1900 Hull Huon Judbury post 1909 Hurst Town Scottsdale Lyndhurst 1853 Hythe Esperance Southport 1969 Ilfracombe Beaconsfield Beauty Point pre 1900 llfraville Beaconsfield Beauty Point pre 1900 Irishtown Port Cygnet Nicholls Rivulet pre 1900 Jerusalem Richmond Colebrook pre 1900 Judd’s Creek Huon Judbury 1924 Kangaroo Bay Clarence Bellerive 1892 Kangaroo Valley Hobart Lenah Valley post 1909 Kawallah Launceston Newstead pre 1900 King's Town Kingborough Kingston 1882 Koomella Scottsdale West Scottsdale Krushka's Bridge Ringarooma Moorina pre 1900 Lightwood Bottom Esperance Geeveston pre 1900 Latour Longford Longford pre 1900 Linda Gormanston Gormanston 1909* Longmeadows St. Leonards Franklin Village pre 1900 Lovett Port Cygnet Cygnet 1915 Lyetta Beaconsfield Clarence Point c1960 Lymington Evandale Nile 1900* Macquarie Gormanston Pillinger 1900 Macquarie's Hamilton Hamilton pre 1900 Township Marawaylee Beaconsfield Riverside West Mill's Reef Bruny Island Alonnah 1955 Montagu Circular Head Togari post 1955 Native Tier Hamilton Osterley11 1900* Norfolk Plains Longford Longford 1860 Oberlin New Norfolk Black Hills pre 1900 Paterson’s Plains St Leonards St Leonands pre 1900 Pea Jacket Point Flinders Wybalenna Penghana Queenstown Queenstown 1900* Piper’s River Lilydale Lilydale 1900* Point Rapid Beaconsfield Rowella 1912

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 41 Poole’s Marshes Oatlands Lower Marshes Pootark Tasman Stormlea 1929 Portland Ringarooma Du Cane pre 1900 Poynduk Esperance Port Davey pre 1900 Preston King Island Naracoopa post 1909 Rialannah Hobart Mount Nelson pre 1900 Richmond Hill Beaconsfield Kayena Rumney's Huts Oatlands Baden 1905 San Diego Spring Bay Darlington Maria Is pre 1900 Settlement Point Flinders Island Emita post 1909 Shepton Montacute Green Ponds Dysart 1875 South Bridgewater Glenorchy Granton 1914 Snake Plains Esperance Glendevie post 1909 Sunny Hills Circular Head Nabageena post 1909 Tatana Beaconsfield Exeter pre 1900 Temby Spring Bay Triabunna pre 1900 Thomas Plains Portland Weldborough 1900* Tongatabu12 Deloraine Weetah 1914 Torquay Devonport Devonport 1890 Tucker's Corner Scottsdale Scottsdale pre 1900 Tucker's Hill Wynyard Milabena Upper Flowerdale Wynyard Moorleah post 1900 Upper Huon Huon Glen Huon post 1900 Victoria (Valley) Huon Ranelagh post 1900 West Leith Ulverstone Turners Beach post 1909 West Bay Beaconsfield Rowella 1912 Wybalerma Huon Glen Huon Yarmouth Portland Scamander 1900*

Endnotes 1 Lovell, S.O., The Centenary of Tasmania: Notes on its discovery, colonization, history and progress. Hobart, 1903, p.29. 2 Bethell, L.S., The story of Port Dalrymple: Life and work in Northern Tasmania. Hobart: 1957, p.188. 3 Robinson, J. Moore, Historical Brevities of Tasmania. Hobart: Mercury, 1937, p.12. 4 Weeding, John Seymour, Mt. Seymour and Weeding Chronicles: A district and family history. Hobart: O.B.M., 1970 5 Tasmaniana Collection—Papers of the Nomenclature Board PQ 919.4 TAS 6 Wettenhall, R.L., A guide to Tasmanian government administration. Hobart: Platypus, 1968, p.130 7 Unless otherwise indicated, the information comes from the Nomenclature Board’s Towns and Localities Index 8 Towns and Localities Index … and ‘Towns, Post Offices and Telegraph Stations in Walch’s Almanac 9 Ranga became Altamoor in 1909 10 Walch’s, 1909 has it as Bruni 11 Walch’s, 1909 has it as Osterly 12 Walch’s, 1909 has Tongataboo; Nomenclature Board Tongatabu * 1900* indicates that both names are found in the ‘List of Towns…’ in Walch’s Almanac for that year [The author, Susan Waters, was a foundation member of the society (then GST), a researcher, and was unfortunately killed in a glider accident near Oatlands in 1987 when only 27 years old.—Ed.]

42 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 WILLIAM EMMERTON—AN OLD COLONIST Dorothy Corbett (Member No. 5310)

HE picturesque Old Stanley 112 days and ten convict deaths on board Burial Ground nestles into the were recorded during that time. The T foot of The Nut and looks out Canton docked at Hobart Town on 12 over a crescent of sandy beach to January 1840 and so began a new life in a sparkling blue water in one direction and strange country on the other side of the to the lush Green Hills in the other. It is world for young William. one of the most serene and peaceful final From the details on his convict records it resting places anyone could wish for. A appears that William was a labourer, a warm November sun shone down on us single man of 20 years, tall with brown as my sisters and I placed a plaque at the hair and reddish whiskers. On arrival in spot where our great great grandfather, Hobart Town he was put on two years’ William EMMERTON, had been laid to probation. In the three years from 1843 rest one hundred and three years earlier. he offended four times and was punished. Nothing is known of the early life of He received two months’ hard labour in William Emmerton before he was con- chains in January 1843 for disobedience victed of stealing a stone bottle to the of orders and refusing to work. He was value of one shilling and five quarts of sentenced to one week’s hard labour on rum to the value of ten shillings. He was the tread wheel in April of the same year tried at the Buckinghamshire Quarter for smoking, and seven days’ solitary Sessions in May 1839 and sentenced to confinement for disobedience of orders in transportation to Van Diemens Land for February 1844. In May 1846 William fifteen years. Although no prior convict- was sentenced to 14 days’ hard labour for ions are stated on William’s convict being drunk and out after hours—perhaps report, it would be naive to think this was he was celebrating the granting of his his first brush with the law as convicted Ticket-of-Leave two months earlier. felons were very rarely transported for a first offence. It is more likely that he had Records of William’s work history are come up before a magistrate for a petty scant but it seems he was sent to work at offence on at least one previous occasion, the Probation Station at Ross and then to particularly since he gave a false name at Public Works Launceston before arriving the time of this arrest. in the Circular Head area in 1844. William spent about three months crowded In the Hobart Town Gazette of Friday 21 with other prisoners awaiting transportation April 1843, William Emmerton’s name is on a hulk moored on the River Thames included in a listing of unclaimed letters before embarking on the ship Canton. at the Hobart Town GPO. Perhaps his When the Canton sailed from Spithead in parents or siblings had written to him. September 1839, Convict 609 William How sad that this letter was never Emmerton was one of the 240 male received. It is likely that William could prisoners aboard. The Surgeon in charge neither read nor write as he made his of the convicts reported that William’s mark with a cross when he married. behaviour during the voyage was ‘tolerably William’s 17-year old wife Ann was born correct’. The voyage from England took in Tasmania, the daughter of William

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 43 SMEDLEY, a convict who was now free In a paragraph headed ‘An Old Colonist’ and farming in the Forest district. They the newspaper reported that: were married at St Paul’s Church, it was noticeable that a goodly number of Stanley, in June 1851 with Ann’s sister older residents, many of whom had come Margaret and her husband Samuel long distances, were at the grave to see the HORTON as witnesses to the marriage. last of an old friend. The deceased had William and Ann settled on a block at been engaged in farming pursuits in this Back Line Road, Forest. Life was not district for fully fifty years, and endured easy for pioneers in Tasmania in the the hardships of the early pioneers with 1850s and William’s days would have the courage characteristic of the early settlers. Straightforward, honest, hard- been long and hard as he worked to turn working and hospitable, he fought his the bush block into a viable farm to graze battle through life respected by all. He stock and grow crops. The land had to be reared a large family who follow in the cleared of virgin bush by hand with only footsteps of their father with credit, and bullocks and horses to do the heaviest of the name of Emmerton in Circular Head is the work. A house had to be built, most one that no one need be ashamed of. likely of timber split on the block. Although Ann Emmerton survived her Ann’s days would have been no easier. For husband by fourteen years, she was in very twenty-seven years of her life she was either poor health for the last eighteen years and pregnant or rearing small children. She and was confined to her bed. Ann died of influ- William raised a family of sixteen—seven enza and bronchitis in 1914 at the home of girls and nine boys. Sadly, two of the boys, her daughter, Susannah Horton, just a George and Samuel, died in infancy. month after the death of her second son th David, the youngest, served with the 2/26 William (our great grandfather). She was Battalion in World War 1. He died on the buried at the Anglican Cemetery at Forest. battlefields of the Somme in July 1916 and Today, 103 years after William was was buried in France. brought to this peaceful burial place, his The Emmerton family farmed in the great great grand daughters sit idly Circular Head district for over 50 years. watching a family of plovers with two In 1864, William applied for a licence to fluffy babies. We share a tot of rum, and operate the Pig and Whistle Inn near the reflect on the life of our earliest known Bridge at Horse Shoe Bend, Black River. Emmerton ancestor. His life in Tasmania, However his application was refused and despite the hardships endured, probably the Inn was not licensed again. presented him with opportunities he While Joseph, the eldest son of William could only have dreamed about had he and Ann, never married, their other remained in England. We would like to surviving children grew up to marry into think William is with us today ‘in spirit’ well known Circular Head families such as and that he is pleased to at last have his HYLAND, HOUSE, HORTON, MEDWIN, life in Tasmania recorded with this O’CONNOR and BLIZZARD and they simple plaque:- produced many Australian grandchildren for William and Ann. WILLIAM EMMERTON c. 1815 England—1899 Forest William Emmerton died at Forest on 28 Respected Pioneer  September 1899. The local newspaper reported that he died of ‘the effects of the Bibliography Convict Records good old age of 84 years’ and he had Early Tasmanian Newspapers been in ‘indifferent health’ for some time. BDM’s Tasmania

44 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 PROGRESS OUT THE BACK IN THE ‘YOU KNOW WHAT’ Irene Schaffer (Member No 591)

have always been fascinated by Would you believe it was not until we books about ‘dunnies’ and have arrived in Tasmania in 1960 that we had a I collected many over the years. place with an indoor toilet. Of course we Looking back I find that lavatories (as we had to go backwards when we went called them) played a big part in my life. camping, and dig a hole. On a trip to The first ones, of course, were all ‘out the Alice Springs with a private bus group, back’. the first job was always to dig the loo. My first recollection is when I was about The men for some reason thought this three years old. We lived on the was their job, but would you believe boundary of Toowoomba and had the almost every time they would put it in sanitary man come each week, not like full view of the camp on the wrong side the Lees across the road. They, not being of the tree. One night they put it up in the within the boundary of the town had to dark; we never did find it. ‘you know what’ (dig a hole!!). That’s The Lady Nelson brings to mind another why we called ours the lavatory and they story. On ships, they are called the heads called theirs the dunny. and found near the galley and in the Ours was way down the back near the fo’c’sle. The one near the galley can be fence, and I soon learnt not to go down somewhat of a problem. One day after without my shoes on as we had free-range paying it a visit I sprayed the small bantams. (And you know what.) My compartment. A short time later the sister was frightened of the dark and alarm went off. This tells everybody though she was two years older, I would there is either a gas leak or some other have to go down with her, which made problem. After sometime on their hands my visits twice as many as hers. and knees under the floorboards the crew decided that the gas was OK. Back on The next one was at my grandmother’s deck everybody! It happened the second place, this time not as far away, but we time; yes, I had sprayed the head. This were always scared to go, as the door was caused another investigation and again at the back and we were frightened the nothing was wrong. After some thought I man would come while we were in (the explained what I had done. Complete you know what). silence, but now every time the alarm is When I married I again found myself on mentioned I get that look that says, ‘no the outskirts of Toowoomba. My more spraying Irene.’ husband built our house, and we had an I hope you have enjoyed the little stories I outside toilet (note the change of name) wrote while at my computer only a few and he of course made the seat to suit feet from my very modern toilet, himself. This was fine until our second reminiscing about all the other ‘you know daughter slipped and hung on until found whats’.  (in the you know what).

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 45 PIONEERS WHO LIVED IN KIAMA AND DISTRICT AREA UP TO 1920

S the Kiama Family History Loveday, Lever, Maxwell, Marshall, Resource Group, we are still Mewburn, Milne, Moffitt, Morgan, A seeking contributions for our Morrison, McAndrews, McCaffery, Pioneers Who Lived in the Kiama and Mellwrath, McLean, McManus, Mood, District Area up to 1920 publication, and McClelland, McAnaney, McBride. have extended the closing date to Medcalf, Mitchell, Moore, Mooney, 31 December 2003. McDermott, McDuff, McGlinchey, The following is a list taken from the McGucken, Major, Mansfield, Marks, Post Office Directory 1875, for Kiama. Noble, Newing, Nethery, O’Toole, Orloff, Osborne, O’Neill, Pickman, Pike, Adams, Alexander, Allison, Anderson, Pinkstone, Plumridge, Potter, Prott, Andrews, Armstrong, Arnold, Arthur, Quinn, Redford, Reid, Regan, Reynolds, Atkinson, Barnier, Barr, Bastable, Beale, Robb, Rankin, Reed, Ringwood, Ritchie, Black, Boles, Booth, Bent, Bryen, Butler, Robinson, Roland, Ryan, Rubenach, Bowie, Brown, Bullen, Boniface, Bassell, Roberts, Sewell, Short, Shackle, Beney, Bennett Biggs, Blair, Buchanan, Simmons, Smith, Sommerville, Spinks, Camerson, Campbell, Charles, Chester, Scott, Smillie, Sproule, Strong, Selwin, Clarke, Colley, Collins, Combs, Somerville, Sanson, Tarrant, Taylor, Comnnell, Cousins, Craig, Crooks, Timbs, Tulloch, Turner, Tyter, Torrens, Crozier, Cunninghame, Caines, Carberry, Tremble, Wakeford, Waldron, Walker, Carson, Chin, Coleman, Coston, Couch, Wall, Ward, Wenham, Weston, Whitton, Cunningham, Chapman, Dietz, Dinning, Whitney, Williams, Wilson, Windsor, Downes, Doyle, Dudgeon, Dutch, Dwyer, Woods, Woodyatt, Welsh, Yates, York, Earl, Elliott, Ellwood, Emery, East, Zillman. Edwards, Fleming, Farraher, Finlayson,

Francis, Fredericks, Fuller, Gallon, Broughton’s Creek has 50 family names Gillon, Graham, Geoghegan, Geary, listed, Gerringong has 85, Shellharbour Gordon, Goodwin, Gray, Greenwood, 88, Albion Park 85, and Jamberoo has 93 Grey, Hamilton, Haddon, Hart, Hanna, family names listed. Harvison, Haydon, Hayes, Henry, Hetherington, Hill, Hincks, Hindmarsh, If you are a descendant of one of these Hudson, Hunt ,Herbert, Holden, Honey, families, please fill in one of our Pioneer Irvine, Johnston, Jones, Jarman, Jackson, Register Forms. James, Kay, Kendall, Keys, King, These are available by sending a SSAE to Kinross, Krammer, Keevers, Keogan, Kiama Family History Resource Group Knox, Leggatt, Lewis, Love, Leatheam, PO Box 75 Kiama NSW 2533 

46 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Lost, Stolen or Strayed … and Found! The Lady Nelson is a replica of the ship writing, enclosing a SSAE to Judy launched in November 1798 at Deptford Webster (Central Register), PO Box England, and she will be used for sailings 5043, Algester QLD 4115  on the River Derwent, Hobart, during September 2003 to celebrate Tasmania’s A Gladstone Genealogical Society bicentenary. The timetable is: member, Gwen Dall, has published an index covering the period 1840–1939 of Wednesday 3, 10, 17 and 24 September. Saturday 6, 13 and 20 September 10,000 names of miners, farmers, soldier settlers etc. who have, at some time lived Sunday 7, 14 and 21 September. in the Central Queensland towns of Mt Three hour sailings daily between Perry, Gayndah, Mundubbera, 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. $15 per person Eidsvold, Monto or Kilkivan. All Two hour sailings daily between towns are inland from Gympie, 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. $10 per person Maryborough and Bundaberg. Gwen There will be a maximum of thirty recorded the names from various sources, passengers each trip, and passengers will including state archives, books, journals, need to supply their own food and drinks. diaries, BDMs, council records, electoral Please contact Irene Schaffer for rolls and post office directories. bookings by phone on (03) 6272 2124 or The index is available on her website email [email protected]  http://users.tpg.com.au/gossms where directions are given on how she may be Members of family history societies who contacted in order to obtain the data she are working on indexing projects which holds. There will be a $6 charge to cover might be of use to other family historians, costs.  are invited to register the project free of charge with the Central Register of The Child Migrant Central Indexing Projects in Australia. Information Index (NCVCCO) in The Register helps to prevent duplication London closed on 30 November 2002. of projects, and (if you wish) it can The Index, which was a result of the 1998 provide free publicity for your project via House of Commons Health Select an entry in the book Specialist Indexes in Committee’s recommendation, was set up Australia: a Genealogist’s Guide. A by the National Council of Voluntary special registration form must be used Child Care Organisations. to submit a brief description of the index The Index is computerised and contains and a contact address. Indexes suitable basic information on individual child for registration include those for migrants taken from the records of known cemeteries, newspapers, Government Sending Agents in the United Kingdom. Gazettes, Police Gazettes, local history The purpose was to enable former British collections, published books, records held child migrants to discover where their by archives, and Australia-wide one- personal records can be accessed. name studies. See http://www. The Index is located at the Department of judywebster.gil.com.au/register.html Health, and the information will remain for information, guidelines, and a registration form; or request these by available through the Department to

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 47 former child migrants who need, for home is still needed for this article. It is a example to demonstrate nationality. The Pocket Edition bound in imitation leather, website www.doh.gov.uk/childinf gold embossed, published in London in contains all the relevant signposting 1824, and carries the bookseller’s small information to sending, or independent sticker ‘BOLTON, BOOKSELLER, agencies, who may be able to assist in TENTERDEN’. Unhappily the spine is finding lost records and family. split, so the bible is in two parts. The The NCVCCO is an umbrella Bible has an inscription: organisation whose members comprise Fanny Espenett. the major child-care and family support charities. Details on their Information Norwich 31st July 1858. This Bible was first given to me, W.H. Subscription Service and activities can be accessed at www.ncvcco.org  Espenett, while in Switzerland (1845 to 1847) by dearest Father & Mother. But having a small ‘Baxter’s’ Bible from dear There are two official Clan Leslie David & Melanie this was transferred to Societies in the world which have been dearest Margaret until her death in 1852 approved by the Clan Chief, the 21st Earl who gave it to dearest Jemima until she of Rothes. The Earl has appointed Barrie died at Cannes July 1858, when dearest Leslie, a direct descendant of George Father & Mother gave it to my beloved Leslie 1st Earl of Rothes, as his Fanny as a wedding present & token of Commissioner for Australia and New affectionate solicitude — Zealand. To The society currently has 67 members, F.M. Espenett from and is hoping to increase its membership. Any Leslie family member is welcome to “Mother” Feb. 1st 1884 join the society. Members receive a Clan Leslie newsletter, and depending on their Anyone who can lay claim to this Bible preference, this is sent either by post or may have it by contacting the editor.  by email. See the article on page 24 for a brief history of the clan. The society’s The Tasmanian Cricket Association website is http://www.clanleslie.org and (TCA) recently opened its cricket the newsletters can also be accessed museum at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. through http://electricscotland.com/ The facility displays much of Tasmania's familytree/newletters/leslie/index.htm rich cricket heritage and some fascinating Further information on the society can be memorabilia. obtained from Barrie Leslie 43 Rosedale Since its opening to public view, visitor Road, Gordon NSW 2072, by phone (02) response has been very supportive, and 9418 2262 or by email on the TCA has been encouraged by the [email protected]  many expressions of assistance and donations of new memorabilia. In March 1998 a home was sought for a The Museum’s research team is seeking Bible which once belonged to the the assistance of the public to locate Espenett family. The current editor photographs of prominent cricketers and inherited this Bible along with her teams. In particular the TCA is hopeful position as editor, and an Espenett family of obtaining photos of all its life members

48 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 to be incorporated into a special life members’ display. FEMALE FACTORY They still require photos of the following HRISTINA HENRI is a Fine Arts former cricket administrators (year Honours student in drawing at the awarded life membership in brackets) C University of Tasmania, and is missing from the TCA’s records, and are looking to celebrate the lives of the hoping members of the public may have women who spent time in the Female photos:— Factory at Cascades. She proposes to draw a replica of a remaining section of J.H. TREBILCOCK (1928), the factory wall using parts of hand A.C. NEWTON (1937), H.H. FACY imprints as the patterning on the stone- (1942) and W.E. TAYLOR (1943). work. Christina is seeking female Information regarding these gentlemen descendants of the women who spent may be sent to Michael Gandy at time in the factory from whom she is [email protected] asking for a copy of their hand imprint. or phone (03) 6248 6224  She plans to enlarge the line patterns of the hands to create a design, and by using While perusing the ‘OPR of Barony, images of ancestors’ imprints will be Lanark, Scotland 1848–1854 linking the past with the emerging Marriages’ F# 1041482 FHC, Irene Australian culture. Esson of West Vancouver, BC Canada Christina will also complete a work (where it is raining cats and dogs!) found which incorporates drawings of sections the following: of hair interspersed with sachets of real F#1041482 Barony Marriages hair, and is also seeking photographs of a 1852 February 15 William HILL, Esq section of hair or a small cut-off section of Williamswood, Van Diemen’s such as the trimmings from a visit to the Land & Janet McRUAK, residing in hairdresser. Barony Parish, lawful daughter of the In choosing hair as an integral part of the deceased James McRuak (timber? work she is acknowledging the genetic merchant) in Glasgow married in material that has passed down through Glasgow on Friday of March 1852 by generations as a positive outcome the Rev’d Wm (Smyth), D.D. Minister emerging from the hardships and of Free St Georges Church difficulties that these women endured and Congregation, Glasgow. a product of their determination and It is very difficult to read, therefore some perseverance. Christina’s completed of the spelling may be incorrect. The work will be assessed late November and bride’s name seems to come from Perth, then will be exhibited at the Female Scotland. Irene will happily mail a copy Factory site. If you are able to assist of the document to any ancestors of the please contact: family, and can be contacted by email on Christina Henri, PO Box 1020 Sandy Bay [email protected]  7006, phone 0407 575 018 or by email [email protected] 

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 49 GENES ON SCREEN Vee Maddock (Member No. 3972)

start with a personal plea. Update AVG (www.grisoft.com) but get your virus protection! protected, before you are embarrassed. I Please, if you don’t have an UP TO Irene Schaffer, a TFHS Inc. member, is DATE anti-virus program on your well known to many for her work with computer and you are connected to the the Lady Nelson, Norfolk Island and early internet, it is not a matter of ‘if’ you will Tasmanian research. Her new website get a virus, but how many ‘will’ you get includes several indexes of early convicts per week. I recently posted on a mail list. and information on early journeys in the Now mail lists are relatively safe, most colonies. http://members.optusnet. don’t allow the transmission of com.au/~schafferi/ attachments to emails. However, because For images of ships which travelled I posted to this particular list, my email between New Zealand and Australia try was picked up by at least ten different this database from the National Maritime computers infected with a virus, which Museum in London. then bombarded me with copies of the http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/research/ virus direct to my email. g3.html This virus, one of many like-minded To view the Museum’s other very nasties on the loose at present, sends informative research guides on itself attached to an email from your everything from women at sea to flags computer. You’d be amazed at the letters check out http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/ I received that weren’t meant for me (or research/guides.html thankfully about me either). Pearl’s Pad contains an amazing number Imagine your embarrassment when your of links to New Zealand resources from father-in-law reads the little love note you Inquests to BDMs, Pensioners to Ships. sent your husband last week, or your fifth cousin receives an email you wrote to http://pearlspad.net.nz/ another relative describing him as a Mudcreek software have several raving loon who wouldn’t know good programs aimed at helping people spread research if he fell over it. This COULD their family tree information. If you are happen to you, and if you don’t protect considering putting your family tree on yourself it WILL. CD-Rom you might find their free CD- By tracing backwards I was able to notify Rom version of GenViewer worth a look. a few people that they had the virus. In http://www.mudcreek.ca/ all cases they DIDN’T KNOW, and they cdrom_version.htm had no idea they were sending random From 1 April the indexes to English and letters to everyone their computer had Welsh Births, Deaths and Marriages from ever met on the internet. Update NOW. 1837 to 2001 will be available online. You can pay for something like Norton There will be a charge for this, a Antivirus, or get free protection with minimum of £5 GBP for 50 page views. However, remember the society has these GRO indexes on fiche available on a

50 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 rotating basis through the branch NEW RELEASE libraries. http://www.1837online.com/ Remember also that from 1837–1902 is presently being indexed at FreeBMDs An index to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Launceston Examiner Every day more work is being done by volunteers around the world to bring This new series covers the personal announcements from the more records to more people for less cost, Launceston Examiner or actually, free. Along with the from its inception on 12 March 1842 FreeBMD project, Rootsweb also have a until 31 December 1899. FreeREG project aimed at providing a In 1900 the name was changed to free transcription of all records extracted The Examiner. from parish registers and other Church There are Birth, Death and Marriage records in the UK. http://freereg. notices as well as deaths and marriages rootsweb.com/ gleaned from news items. FreeCen is an attempt to transcribe and have freely available online the censuses In the early years of this first volume of the UK. http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ Police Reports were detailed and give a graphic picture of the social conditions This project began with the transcription prevailing, as do the Police Intelligence, and indexing of the 1891 Devon Census Supreme Court and Quarter Sessions which, until a suitable search engine is reports, which in many cases culminate created for the project, is temporarily in the report of an Execution. available at http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/ genuki/DEV/Census.1891/  Selected news items of interest to family historians have also been included.

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TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 51 TASMANIANA LIBRARY, STATE LIBRARY OF TASMANIA NEW ACQUISITIONS

This is a select list of books on history and genealogy which have been added to the Tasmaniana Library between January and March 2003. They are mostly, but not all, new publications; the Tasmaniana Library often acquires older works which relate to Tasmania and which it does not already hold. The list has been kept as brief as possible; normally only author, title and the Tasmaniana Library's reference number are given. If you would like further information about any of the books listed, please contact the Tasmaniana Library at 91 Murray Street, Hobart 7000 or by telephone on (03) 6233 7474, by fax on (03) 6233 7902, or by email at [email protected] Further information is also available on TALIS, the State Library's on–line information system. TALIS is available in city and branch libraries throughout Tasmania and through the World Wide Web; its URL is http://www.talis.tas.gov.au:8000/ Please note that, while all of these books are available for reference in the Tasmaniana Library, they are not available for loan (although copies of some of them may be available at city and branch libraries).

Banks, Annette, The family of George Burgess and Ann Haines: 160th anniversary edition 1814-2002. (TLQ 929.2 BUR) Bissett, Muriel and Betty, Index to Launceston Examiner, Vol 1, 12 March 1842- 31 December 1851. (TLR 929.3 IND) Browne, Frank Styant, Voyages in a caravan: the illustrated logs of Frank Styant Browne. (TLQ 919.46 BRO) Carroll, Brian, Toll: an illustrated history. (TLQ 338.0440994 CAR) Chick, Neil, The Archives Office of Tasmania : a guide for family historians. (TLR 929.3 CHI) Clark, Brian, and Johnson, Michael, Pipe organs of Tasmania. (Third edition, 2002) (TLQ 786.5509946 CLA) Cross, L.J.E., History of the combined Probus Club of Claremont: 10th anniversary 1992- 2002 (TLQ 367. PRO) Davey, Richard, The Sarah Island conspiracies: being an account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour & Sarah Island. (TLQ 994.644 DAV) Fisher, Leonard C, Cradle for a giant: notes on the history of Railton and surrounding districts. (TL 994.633 FIS) French, Greg, Tasmanian trout waters. (TL 799.1755 FRE) The Girls Industrial School, 1862-1945. (CROPQ 362.7680994661 GIR) Glade-Wright, John L., The Glade-Wright roots (TL 920 GLA) Hingston, M. F., Forget not: Campbells down under. (TLQ 929.2 CAM) Hiscutt, Hugh, Musical and other memories. (TLQ 920 HIS) Hunt, Susan, Lure of the southern seas: the voyages of Dumont d’Urville. (TLQ 919.04 DUM)

52 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Jones, Aileen and Jan Tolland, 50 years of education at Montello Primary School. (TLQ 372.9946 MON) Kostoglou, Parry, Archaeological mitigation works: former Jewish Cemetery, Windsor Court Complex, Harrington Street. (TLQ 994.661 KOS) Laugesen, Amanda, Convict words : language in early colonial Australia. (TL 427.994 LAU) McGowan, Barry, Australian ghost towns. (TLQ 994. MCG) McNamee, David, Beating the odds: the story of Tattersalls’s private mail network 1902- 1930. (TL 383.1809946 MCN) Manchester, Margot, Reg Chopping: all or nothing: a grazier’s story from 1953-1979. (TL 636.01099466 CHO) Martin, Maureen and Meryl Yost, Holy Trinity Church of England, Launceston, Tasmania: marriage register index 1900-1925. (TLPQ 929.3 HOL) Matthews, H. Raymond, Dawsons of Invercargill. (TLQ 929.2 DAW) Pendrey, Barbara, Chatwin: 6 generations in Tasmania. (TLQ 929.2 CHA) Pridmore, Walter, Port Arthur: as it was. (TL 994.671 PRI) Richardson, Nick, Ricky Ponting: unauthorised biography. (TL 796.358 PON) Rolls, Eric, Visions of Australia: impressions of the landscape. (TL 994 ROL) Russell, Penny, This errant lady: Jane Franklin’s overland journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839. (TL 994.02 FRA) Selzer, Anita, Governors’ wives in colonial Australia. [Includes Lady Jane Franklin] (TLQ 994.03 SEL) Smith, Simon, From club to corporation: motor insurance and the rise of Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd (AAMI) 1933-1999. (TL 368.572 SMI) University of Tasmania. Faculty of Medicine, Albert Gordon Baikie : an appreciation of his life. (TL 610.92 BAI) Wilcox, Craig, Australia’s Boer War: the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. (TLQ 968.0484 WIL) Windschuttle, Keith, The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Vol. 1, Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847. (TL 994.60049915 WIN) Wynyard Garden Club, Jubilee year, 1952-2002. (TLQ 635.9099467 WYN)

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 53 FROM THE EXCHANGE JOURNALS Thelma McKay (Member No. 598)

‘Was Your Ancestor an Officer at the Victoria in October 1851 bringing 199 Middlesex Industrial School?’ by Peter immigrants. Related in this article are the Watson in the journal of the West history of the ship, her voyage from Middlesex Family History Society Plymouth in England to Portland in Vol.20, No.2, June 2002, pp.14–21 & 22– Victoria, and the events on board during 23. The Middlesex Industrial School, the voyage. Also included is an account sometimes known as the London or of the loss of the vessel which struck a Feltham Industrial School, opened in reef in the Torres Straits in 1853. Feltham in January 1859. Children between the ages of 8 to 14 years were sent here, many for petty crimes they had 3 ‘Missing Foreign Inwards Passengers’ by Ada Ackerley, p.262. A committed. A history of the institution features in this article, plus a list of the scrap of torn paper with no identification as to the ship, year or port of embarkation staff, and where to find the records was found regarding Foreign Inwards relating to this school. passengers to Victoria. Their names, ages, and if British or foreign, are listed Four articles of interest can be found in in this item. the June 2002 issue of The Genealogist, the journal of The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Vol.10, No.6. 4 ‘Geelong and Portland Bay Immigration Society (including Port Fairy) 1845–1847’ by Jenny Williams 1 ‘Captain J.H. Thompson 1889–1955’ Fawcett, pp.263–264. Many men and by A.D. Thompson, p.250. Indentured as women from Van Diemen’s Land sailed a seaman in 1904, aged 13 years, John to Port Phillip between 1845 and 1847, Harold Thompson served on the barque their passages paid by the Geelong and Wild Wave. He became a mate on the Portland Bay Immigration Society. Lobo when only 19, and later a Master Formed in 1845, James Wallace was Mariner in Hobart under Thomas M appointed secretary in Port Phillip with a Fisher. He enlisted in the AIF, committee in VDL. The Society recruited transferring to the Royal Navy as a over 2,000 men to work in Port Phillip. Lieutenant in 1917. At war’s end he Many were ex-convicts and over thirty commanded supply servicing various voyages were made. One of the lighthouses in both North and West surviving lists is included. The Geelong Australia. He ended his sea life as a and Portland Emigration Scheme list can Torres Strait pilot in 1953. be viewed on the GENSEEK website: http://www.standard.net.au/~jwilliams/ geelong2.htm 2 ‘The First Direct Immigrants to Western Victoria and their Ship the Tasmania’ by Tom Newton, pp.255–258. ‘Wrecks on the NSW South Coast’ The barque Tasmania sailed for West compiled by Mark Fleming in Illawarra

54 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 Branches the Illawarra Family History profiles of many early Geelong families. Group journal No.71, June 2002, pp.5– These include ‘Early Monumental 10. Mark Fleming is the manager of the Masons of Geelong’ and ‘Geelong and Anzac Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park District Cemeteries’ compiled by and also a member of the Naval Dianne Hughes. Historical Society. He has compiled a list of wrecks in NSW from 1805 to 1988 which records the name of the ship, ‘Grandmas And Grandpas’ – Luv ‘Em All’ by Milton C. Bubb in Ibis Links the where wrecked, design (eg sloop, cutter journal of the Griffith Genealogical & etc) and any notes regarding its fate ie if driven ashore or lost. Historical Society No.68, July 2002, pp.2–9. This article details the lives of descendants of Robert Forrester, a First ‘Royal Berkshire Hospital Archives’ by Fleet convict, resulting from his Dr Marshall Barr, founding Chairman of relationship with Isabella Ramsay who the Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre. arrived in NSW in 1791 on the Mary Berkshire Family Historian the journal of Ann. Other family lines include Thomas the Berkshire Family History Society and Hannah Hodgetts who lived at Vol.25, No.4, June 2002, pp.182–186. In Norfolk Plains in Tasmania. Family trees 1983 numerous records relating to the for each family are featured. Royal Berkshire Hospital were collected from many areas and catalogued to form the archives and museum for the Royal ‘Charters Towers State High School Berkshire Hospital. The main sources, First Year Enrolments 5 February – 8 including the date range, are listed in this October 1912’. in Relatively Speaking Vol.21, No.2, July 2002 issue of the article and include those for patients and Family History Association of North staff dating back to 1839. Queensland journal, pp.18–19. An alphabetical list provides the name of ‘A Landmark for Women in Australia’ each child, one parent’s name, and ages by Jenny Paterson in Ances-Tree the of these first year enrolments during 1912 journal of the Burwood-Drummoyne & at the Charters Towers State High School. District Family History Group Vol.15, No.2, July 2002, pp.1–4. 2002 marked the centenary year of the Federal vote for ‘Roots Around Manchester a Australian women. Jenny Paterson has celebration of Manchester’s diverse heritage’ in The Manchester Genealogist compiled several useful lists for learning the journal of the Manchester & more about the history of women which include the titles to books on convicts; Lancashire Family History Society Vol.38, No.3, July 2002, pp.205–215. education; work; war; home and public This article features abstracts of several life; children; also some biographical and autobiographical articles. talks presented at ‘The Spirit of Friendship Festival’, timed to coincide with the 2002 Commonwealth Games in The July 2002 issue No.74 of the Manchester. Topics include ‘Manchester Geelong Family History Group journal & the Industrial Revolution’, The Pivot Tree features several articles on ‘Manchester’s Irish Community’, ‘Local local cemeteries and stonemasons plus People Transported to Australia’,

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 55 ‘Manchester’s Jewish Heritage’ and ‘Little Italy’. BOOK REVIEW They Sowed, We Reap: 170 Years of ‘Tasmanian Designer Headstones Whitemore History from Land Grant to Remain’ by Brian Andrews, Heritage Family Farm, Ivan C. Heazlewood. Officer, Archdiocese of Hobart in the Whitemore Historical Group, October Western Ancestor the journal of the West 2002 (A4 format of 288 pages, Australian Genealogical Society Vol.8, illustrations and property index). $20 No.11, September 2002, p.432. The first from the author at 531 Heazlewoods Bishop of Tasmania, Robert William Lane, Whitemore TAS 7303 (p&p Tas. Willson, brought out from England in $6.65 p&p interstate $7.50). 1844 four exemplar headstones designed by Augustus Pugin which could be easily The book is a history of early land grants replicated by local artisans. These were in the Whitemore area encompassing entrusted to John Gillon, a stonemason in more than fifty farms, with details of Macquarie Street, Hobart, who produced tenancies and owners, in some cases back copies for both the Southern and to the 1840s and comments on the Midlands Catholic cemeteries in changes in agriculture up to the present Tasmania, some of which can still be time. seen and admired today. The book has a property index, lists of tenants, maps of Glenore, Adelphi, Oaks ‘Convict Hulks’ in the Progenitor the and Quamby Estates. It also has a journal of the Genealogical Society of the number of illustrations throughout the Northern Territory Vol.20, No.3, book, including copies of early studio September 2002, pp.58–59. A list of photos of twenty-eight migrant ancestors. British convict hulks 1777–1848, Included in the book are references to showing the years they were stationed at sources used. Woolwich, Chatham, Deptford, Additionally it records the varying Portsmouth, Bermuda etc. fortunes of a typical rural village. This book is recommended reading for ‘Local Churches & Their Records’ anyone interested in local history. (London Borough of Hillingdon) in the Helen Stuart Hillingdon Family History Society journal No.59, September 2002, pp.24– (The author has donated a copy of this 29. A list of churches for the London book to the Launceston Branch library) Borough of Hillingdon, with addresses Note: Ivan will be conducting a tour of and the years covered in christening, the Whitemore area during our AGM marriage and burial records. All weekend, and books will be available for  denominations are included. purchase on the day. 

56 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 COMING EVENTS

TASMANIA 26 July 2003 Unless otherwise notified, all Tasmanian Centre for Historical Studies Historical Research Association Inc. Conference, Stanley Burbury Theatre, (THRA) meetings are held at 8:00 p.m. in University of Tasmania, Hobart. the Royal Society Room, Customs Speakers will include mainland historians House, Davey Street, Hobart (enter from Patricia Grimshaw, Janet McCalman and car park). Anna Haebich and locals Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Dianne Snowden,

Andrew Piper and Alison Alexander. 10 June 2003—THRA Cost: $35 full registration, $25 Friends of Professor Henry Reynolds. the Centre $25 students and unwaged. Contact Alison Alexander 21 June 2003 by  6223 7762 or email State AGM for the Tasmanian Family [email protected] History Society Inc. Hosted by the Launceston branch, and will be held at 10 August 2003 the Quercus Rural Youth Function Port Arthur Muster, see article page 20. Centre, 415 Oaks Road, Carrick. Further information contact the secretary at PO 12 August 2003—THRA Box 1290, Launceston TAS 7250  (03) Walking Clubs and ‘the Reserve’, Tim 6344 4034 or by email Jetson. [email protected] 9 September 2003—THRA 26–29 June The Eldershaw Lecture—The Risdon Escape. An academic conference with Settlement under John Bowen, Phillip a public dimension. Imagination Takes Tardif. on Escape and Convict Experience. To be held at Strahan. Keynote speakers: 27–29 September 2003 Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh Biennial Local History Conference to and Ian Duffield, University of be hosted by the Glamorgan Spring Bay Edinburgh. Conference website: Historical Society over the weekend 27– hhtp://iccs.arts.utas.edu.au/escape.htm 29 September 2003 at the Waterloo Inn, on which details are regularly updated. Swansea. The conference will have the Further information from Lucy Frost theme ‘Travel by Land and Sea’. [email protected] or School of Saturday will include the opening,  History & Classics 6226 2298. presentation of papers, a book launch, lunch and dinner. Sunday will provide 8 July 2003—THRA the opportunity of an historic walk, Dealing with a Captive Market: Black morning tea and visits to historic homes. Economy Trading at Macquarie Further information can be obtained from Harbour Penal Station, Dr Hamish the Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical Maxwell-Stewart. Society c/o Council Office, Noyes Street

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 57 Swansea 7190, by email on available from Mr A Sampson, 1 Oxgang [email protected]  (03) 6257 9011 Close, Redcat, Cleveland TS10 4ND or fax on (03) 6375 1241. ENGLAND  0011 44 1642 486615

14 October 2003—THRA 3–7 July 2003 Sport in Tasmania David Young. Australian Society for Sports History Inc. Sporting Traditions XIV 11 November 2003—THRA Conference. Australian Catholic Uni versity, Mackillop Campus, North Eliza Forlong and the Saxon Merino Sydney NSW. Conference theme: ‘The Industry, Mrs Mary Ramsay. Marginalised and the Mislaid’. Further

information and registration forms 9 December 2003—THRA available from Kristine Toohey, School Tobias Furneaux RN, and his Pacific of Leisure, Sport and Tourism Studies, Voyaging, Dan Sprod. UTS Kuring-gai Campus, PO Box 222, Lindfield NSW 2070. 21 February 2004

Descendants Day St David’s Park, 19–21 September 2003 Hobart, Tasmania. The Hobart Town NSW & ACT A.F.H.S. Inc. State (1804) First Settlers Association. Contact Conference 2003 will be held at Central Mrs Freda Gray  (03) 6248 5352 or Coast Leagues Club Gosford, NSW. The Mrs Margaret Andersen  (03) 6263 conference host is the Central Coast 5609. Family History Society Inc., and can be 7 March 2004 contacted at PO Box 4090 East Gosford NSW 2250, (02) 4324 5164 fax (02) Beams Family Gathering, Sunday 4324 5144. Expression of Interest Forms 7 March 2004 at the Village Green, for societies are available from Westbury, Tasmania. Contact Marjorie [email protected] Porter, Acacia Park, RMB 1425 Boards Individuals may contact the Central Coast Road, Strathmerton, VIC 3641 or  (03) FHS Inc. directly, for a form, and to be 5873 2370. included on the database.

INTERSTATE AND 26–30 August 2004 OVERSEAS A Family History Festival to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Federation of 28 June 2003 Family History Societies — ‘A Flight of The 8th Yorkshire Family History Fair Yesterdays’ Loughborough University, will be held at York Racecourse Loughborough, Leicestershire. Contact (Knavesmire Exhibition Centre) between Federation Family History Societies 10:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday 28 Administrator, PO Box 2425, Coventry, June 2003. All usual stalls associated CV46YX.  0011 44 2476 67 7798 or with a major event. Free car parking. email [email protected]  Admission £2.50. Cafeteria facilities. The largest Family History event in the UK! (234 tables in 2002). Further details

58 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 LIBRARY NOTES

State Microfiche Roster

20/05/03 19/08/03 18/11/03 24/02/04 18/05/04 14/08/03 13/11/03 19/02/04 13/05/04 19/08/04 Burnie Set 4 Set 3 Set 2 Set 1 Set 5 Devonport Set 5 Set 4 Set 3 Set 2 Set 1 Hobart Set 1 Set 5 Set 4 Set 3 Set 2 Huon Set 2 Set 1 Set 5 Set 4 Set 3 Launceston Set 3 Set 2 Set 1 Set 5 Set 4

Set 1 GRO BDMs Index 1868–1897 Set 2 Griffith’s Valuation for Ireland Series GRO Consular Records Index Old Parochial Records and 1891 Census Indexes for Scotland Set 3 GRO BDMs Index 1898–1922 and AGCI Set 4 National Probate Calendars 1853–1943 Set 5 GRO BDMs Index 1923–1942 Exchange journals Members’ Interests and One Name Studies Index

BURNIE Accessions—Books * AAA, Britain Travel Book * Cooper D. and Godwin F., The Whisky Roads of Scotland * Courtney, Bryce, The Potato Factory * Courtney, Bryce, Tommo and Hawk * Crowl, Philip A., The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Britain * Lancashire County Council, Finding Folk Handlist of Genealogical Sources in Lancashire Record Office * Lawson, Will, Blue Gum Clippers and Whale Ships of Tasmania * Longman, Guide to British Place names Muriel and Betty Bissett, Index to Launceston Examiner Volume 3 Electoral Roll 1856 Muriel and Betty Bissett, Index to Launceston Examiner Vol 2 1852–1859 * Peter Aughton, North Meols and Southport: A History Peter Park, Directory of Speakers 5th Edition * Shea, Michael, Britain’s Offshore Islands * Shell, County Durham TFHS Inc. Hobart Branch, Undertakers of Hobart Vol II: Index to Alex Clark & Son Funeral Records 1885-1907 TFHS Inc. Devonport, In Loving Memory: A Transcription Of The Forth Cemeteries Tasmania Tom Richards, Was Your Grandfather A Railwayman?

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Accessions—CD-Roms Scottish Parish Records: West Lothian, Midlothian

Accessions—Microfiche * Bendigo Family History Society, Index to Bendigo Hospital Admissions, Bk 1&2 Sep 1856–Nov 1866 * Indicates donated items DEVONPORT Accessions—Books Bissett, Muriel & Betty, Index to Launceston Examiner Vol. 2, 1852–1859 Bissett, Muriel & Betty, Index to Launceston ExaminerVol. 3, Electoral Roll 1856 * Chatwin, D. Pendry, B. & Scarcella, V, Chatwin–6 Generations in Tasmania * Hawgood, David, An Introduction to…Using Computers for Genealogy * Howells, Cyndi, Netting Your Ancestors–Genealogical Research on the Internet Mason, Thais, From Chains to Freedom The Bellett Linkage plus the Kidner Family Vol. 2 1788–1988 Sylvester-Mason, Thais, From Chains to Freedom Supplement. Corrections & Additions to the Garth, Bellett & Kidner families 1788–1994 Summer Judith Ann, The Kildare Carrolls of Circular Head * S & N Genealogy, How to Research Your Family History * TFHS Inc. Devonport Branch, In Loving Memory: A Transcription of the Forth Cemeteries, Tasmania

Accessions–CD–Roms Bounty Immigrants–New South Wales, 1828–1842 British Isles Vital Index England, Ireland, Scotland, & Wales Vol. 2 Crew Lists & Agreements, 1863–1913 * Current Publications on Microfiche by Member Societies, FFHS Publications Ltd Myrtleford History & Cemetery * Norfolk 1841 Census * Pigot & Co. Directory, Combined Edition, 1830 * Return of Owners of Land–Cumberland, 1873 South Australian Marriages Registrations, 1917–1937 Tallangatta History & Cemetery Tasmanian Collection of Records, 1830s–1930s

Accessions—Microfiche Adelaide, West Terrace Burial Register, 1810–1940 Adelaide, West Terrace Monumental Inscriptions Adelaide, West Terrace Cemetery Cremations, 1903–1959 * Indicates donated items

60 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 HOBART Accessions—Books Norm Beechey & Dorothy Baker, A History of Dover & Port Esperance, Tasmania—vol. 2, 1875–1925 Muriel & Betty Bissett, Index to Launceston Examiner, vol. 2 1852–1859 Muriel & Betty Bissett, Index to Launceston Examiner, vol. 3 Electoral Roll 1856 * Community History Museum, Lst; Index of Partial Records—The Scots Presbyterian Kirk, Launceston, Tas. Period 1833–1842 * John A. Coupe, A guide to the Registration Districts of Manchester Cumbria F.H.S., Transcript & Index for the 1851 Census for Cockermouth (Part 1. * Kathy Duncombe, Index to F. Oliver Gray's 'Recollections of North Bruny Island' and 'Further Recollections of North Bruny Island' Jeremy Gibson, Brett Langston & Brenda W. Smith, Local newspapers 1750–1920: England and Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man; 2nd ed. Jeremy Gibson & Else Churchill, Probate Jurisdictions: Where to look for Wills; 5th ed. Jeremy Gibson & Pamela Peskett, Record Offices: How to find them; 9th (2002) ed. * Olive B.A. Harris, From Hollow Estate to Hokianga–The story of the Hawkins Family Levendale Primary School, Centenary Levendale Primary School 1901–2001 * H. Raymond Matthews, Dawsons of Invercargill Cora Num, Web Sites for Genealogists—7th edition, 2003 * Stuart A. Raymond, Information Sources for Surrey and Sussex Genealogists—Surrey and Sussex: The Genealogists Library Guide 1 * Stuart A. Raymond, Surrey and Sussex Lists of Names—Surrey and Sussex: The Genealogists Library Guide 3 * Stuart A. Raymond, Administrative Records for Surrey and Sussex Genealogists—Surrey and Sussex: The Genealogists Library Guide 4 TFHS Inc.–Devonport, In Loving Memory: A Transcription of the Forth Cemeteries, Tasmania Ian Terry, Devonport & Environs Heritage Review—Stage 1–Thematic History Ian Terry, Municipality of Sorell Heritage Study—Stage 1–Thematic History Ian Terry, Municipality of Sorell Heritage Study—Site Inventory, vols 1–6

Accessions—CD-Roms Hampshire G.S., Hampshire Burial Index 1400-1837

Accessions—Microfiche * Archive CD Books, 1861 Census Middlesex. AIGS Inc., Cemetery Transcriptions v2 Cumbria FHS, 1851 Census—Kendale–Part 1 Cumbria FHS, 1851 Census—Wasdale, Eskdale, Irton, Drigg, Muncaster, Waberthwaite Glasgow & West of Scotland F.H.S., Index 1851 Census–Old Monklands S&N Genealogy Supplies, Seafarer's details from Crew Lists and Agreements 1863–1913 Wiltshire 1851 Census Productions, 1851 Wiltshire Census * Indicates donated or complimentary item

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 61 HUON Accessions—Booklets * Tay Valley Family History Society, North East Fife Emigrants in Australia Chick, Neil, The Archives Office of Tasmania: A Guide for Family Historians Gibson, Jeremy and Pamela Peskett, Record Offices: How to Find Them Gibson, Jeremy and Else Churchill, Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills

Accessions—Books Graeme-Evans, Alec and Peter Wilson, Story of Shipwrights of Pt Cygnet and their boats 1863–1997 TFHS Inc. Hobart, O’Shea Index to Mercury: Deaths 1921–1930 TFHS Inc. Burnie, Early Coastal Newspapers: BMD 1877–1912 Huonville High School, Huonville High School Year Books, 1979, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 TFHS Inc. Devonport, The North-West Post (1887–1916) An Index: Volume 5–1908 TFHS Inc. Members Interests 1998–2002 * Pols, Robert, Dating Old Photographs * Chick, Neil, Van Diemen’s Land Heritage Volume 1 * Smee C.J., Bicentenary Pioneer Register 2nd Edition Volume 3 * Tasmanian Year Book 1978 * Bridges, C.J., That Yesterday was Home TFHS Inc. Hobart, Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania Vol. VI Congregational Cemeteries Part I McClaughlin, T., Barefoot & Pregnant Vol. 2 TFHS Inc. Devonport, The Advocate: Index Personal Announcements 1998 TFHS Inc. Devonport, Transcription of the Chudleigh & Mole Creek Cemeteries * Hammond, David, The Huon Valley Yesterday and Today * McNeice, Roger V, Helmets and Hatchets: A History of the Hobart Fire Brigade 1883–1983 * Kostoglou, Parry, Historic Timber-getting between Hastings & Dover * Kostoglou, Parry, Historic Timber-getting between Cockle Creek & Lune River * Kostoglou, Parry, Historic Timber-getting between Glendevie & Franklin

Accessions—Microfiche T.F.H.S. Inc., Members’ Interests 1998–2002 TFHS Inc., Members’ Interests 1998–2001 TFHS Inc. Hobart, Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania Vol. V Cornelian Bay Cemetery Hobart * Indicates donated items

62 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 LAUNCESTON Accessions—Books Bissett, Muriel & Betty, Index to Launceston Examiner Volume 2,1852–1859 Bissett, Muriel & Betty, Index to Launceston Examiner Volume 3,Electoral Roll 1856 Cargill, David, Berwickshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855, The Border Parishes. Volume 1 Cargill, David, Berwickshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855 The Eastern Parishes Volume 2 Cargill, David, Berwickshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855 The Western Parishes Volume 3 * Heazlewood, Ivan C., They Sowed We Reap: 170 Years of Whitemore's History From Land Grant to Family Farm Lee, Mrs Marian, Christchurch Cathedral: Christchurch New Zealand Lindsay, Neville, Equal to the Task Volume 1 The Royal Australian Army Service Corps * Martin, M. & Yost, M., Holy Trinity Church of England, Marriage Register Index 1900– 1925 Mason-Cox, Margaret, Lifeblood of a Colony, a history of irrigation in Tasmania Mitchell, Alison, South Perthshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855 Lower Strathearn Volume 1 Mitchell, Alison, South Perthshire Monumental Inscriptions pre 1855 Upper Strathearn and Trossachs Volume 2 * Perkins, John P., Current Publications on Microfiche by Member Societies Fifth Edition * Redmonds, George, Surnames and Genealogy A New Approach Suter, W.J. Suter, Melville and Jory Families TFHS Inc.Devonport Branch In Loving Memory: A Transcription of the Forth Cemeteries Tasmania TFHS Inc.Hobart Branch, Undertakers of Hobart Volume 2 1885–1907 Index to Alex Clark & Son Funeral Records TFHS Launceston Branch, The Examiner Index Obituaries & Funerals 1951–1960 The Herald, One Hundred & Fifty Years of News from The Herald 1840–1990 Wheatley, Keith, National Maritime Museum–Guide to Maritime Britain

Accessions—CD-Roms AIGS, Cemetery Transcriptions V2 - Index to Selected MI Transcriptions Ancestry.com, Pallot's Marriage Index 1780–1837 Ancestry.com, Pallot's Baptism Index 1780–1837

Accessions—Microfiche Stephen McCormack, Tithe Defaulters: Cork 1831 Stephen McCormack, Tithe Defaulters: Tipperary 1831 Stephen McCormack, Tithe Defaulter: Waterford 1831 * Indicates donated items

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 63 SOCIETY SALES

The Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. has published the following items which are all (except the microfiche) available from branch libraries. All mail orders should be forwarded to the Sales and Publications Coordinator PO Box 191 Launceston TAS 7250.

Microfiche TAMIOT 2nd edition (inc. postage) ...... $110.00 1997/98 Members’ Interests (inc. postage) ...... $5.50 1998/99 and 1999/2000 Members’ Interests (inc. postage) ...... $5.50 The Tasmanian War Memorials Database, comp. Fred Thornett, (22 fiche) (p&h $2.00) $66.00

Books My Most Interesting Ancestor, Manuscript Award 2001 ...... $9.00 Van Diemen’s Land Heritage Index, Vol. 2 (p&p $4.20) ...... $11.00 Van Diemen’s Land Heritage Index, Vol. 3 (p&p $4.20) ...... $17.60 Van Diemen’s Land Heritage Index, Vol. 4 (p&p $4.20) ...... $27.50 Tasmanian Ancestry, current volume ...... $9.90 Tasmanian Ancestry, last volume ...... $8.25 Tasmanian Ancestry, second last volume ...... $5.50

NEW BRANCH PUBLICATIONS Please note that items advertised are only available from the branches as listed.

DEVONPORT BRANCH In Loving Memory—A Transcription of the Forth Cemeteries—Tasmania $15.00 Members discount of 10% will apply when membership number is quoted. p&p on single volume $5.00. 2–4 volumes $8.00 TFHS Inc. Devonport Branch, PO Box 587, Devonport TAS 7310.

HOBART BRANCH Undertakers of Hobart Vol II. Index to Alex Clark & Son Funeral Records 1885–1907 $48.00 plus $7.50 p&p TFHS Inc. Hobart Branch, PO Box 326, Rosny Park TAS 7018 [email protected]

LAUNCESTON BRANCH Index to Launceston Examiner Volume 1 12 March 1842 to 31 December 1851 $30.00 plus $7.30 p&p Members $27.00 when membership number is quoted plus $7.30 p&p THFS Inc. Launceston Branch, PO Box 1290 Launceston TAS 7250

For a complete listing of Branch and State sales please ask your local branch for a copy of the current Sales List.

64 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 BRANCH LIBRARY ADDRESSES, TIMES AND MEETING DETAILS

BURNIE Phone: (03) 6431 1958 (Branch Secretary) Library 58 Bass Highway, Cooee (Bass Bakery building). Members may park adjoining the library. Tuesday 11:00 a.m.3:00 p.m. Saturday 1:00 p.m.4:00 p.m. The library is open at 7:00 p.m. prior to meetings. Meeting Branch Library, 58 Bass Highway, Cooee 7:30 p.m. on 3rd Tuesday of each month, except January and December. Day Meeting 1st Monday of the month at 10:30 except January and February.

DEVONPORT Phone: (03) 6424 4005 (Branch Secretary) Library Rooms 37–39, Days Building, Cnr Best & Rooke Sts, Devonport Tuesday 10:00 a.m.4:00 p.m. Thursday 10:00 a.m.4:00 p.m. Meeting Meeting Room 2, Devonport Library, Fenton Way, Devonport at 7:30 p.m. on last Thursday of each month, except December. Enter from Town Hall car park.

HOBART Phone: (03) 6228 5057 (Branch Secretary) Library 19 Cambridge Road, Bellerive Tuesday 12:30 p.m.3:30 p.m. Wednesday 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Saturday 1:30 p.m.4:30 p.m. Meeting Rosny Library, Bligh Street, Rosny Park, at 8:00 p.m. on 3rd Tuesday of each month except January and December.

HUON Phone: (03) 6239 6529 (Branch Secretary) Library Soldiers Memorial Hall, Marguerite Street, Ranelagh Saturday 1:30 p.m.4:00 p.m. Wednesday 1:30 p.m.4:00 p.m. Meeting Branch Library, Ranelagh, at 4:00 p.m. on 1st Saturday of each month except January. Please check Branch Report for any changes.

LAUNCESTON Phone: (03) 6344 4034 (Branch Secretary) Library 2 Taylor Street, Invermay, Launceston Tuesday 10:00 a.m.3:00 p.m. Wednesday 7:00 p.m.8:30 p.m. Closed Wednesday night during June, July and first two weeks of August. Saturday 2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m. Meeting Branch Library 2 Taylor Street, Invermay, at 7:00 p.m. on 4th Tuesday of each month except December. MEMBERSHIP OF THE TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC.

Membership of the TFHS Inc. is open to all interested in genealogy and family history, whether or not resident in Tasmania. Assistance is given to help trace overseas ancestry as well as Tasmanian.

Dues are payable each year by 1 April. Subscriptions for 2003–2004 are as follows:-

Ordinary member $39.00 inc. GST Joint members (2 people at one address) $49.00 inc. GST Australian Concession $27.00 inc. GST Australian Joint Concession $37.00 inc. GST

Membership Entitlements: All members receive copies of the society’s journal Tasmanian Ancestry, published quarterly in June, September, December and March. Members are entitled to free access to the society’s libraries. Access to libraries of some other societies has been arranged on a reciprocal basis.

Application for Membership: Application forms may be obtained from the TFHS Inc. State Secretary, or any branch and be returned with appropriate dues to a branch treasurer or sent direct to the TFHS Inc. Treasurer, PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250. Dues are also accepted at libraries and branch meetings.

Donations: Donations to the Library Fund ($2.00 and over) are tax deductible. Gifts of family records, maps, photographs, etc. are most welcome.

Research Queries: Research is handled on a voluntary basis in each branch for members and non- members. Rates for research are available from each branch and a stamped, self addressed, business size envelope should accompany all queries. Members should quote their membership number. A list of members willing to undertake record searching on a private basis can be obtained from the society. The society takes no responsibility for such private arrangements.

Advertising: Advertising for Tasmanian Ancestry is accepted with pre-payment of $27.50 per quarter page in one issue or $82.50 for four issues including 10% GST. Further information can be obtained by writing to the journal committee at PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250.

ISSN 0159 0677

Printed by The Franklin Press Pty Ltd—Hobart Tasmania Print Broking—Terry Brophy and Associates QUERIES

LENAH VALLEY FOOTBALL CLUB Seeking information on the history of the Lenah Valley Football Club to include in the September 2003 journal. If able to help, please contact the journal editor before 1 July.

MASON/FARNFIELD Rubina MASON b c.1867 place unknown. On 2 July 1887 Rubina Mason aged 20 years married Charles Henry FARNFIELD aged 20 years at All Saints Church of England Hobart by the Reverend TARLETON. Marriage was witnessed by Farnfield family members. Charles met Rubina in their teenage years and it is said that she came from Queenstown. The family moved to Victoria in the early 1900s. Rubina died 14 August 1946 at Darebin Victoria aged 79 years. No record of place of birth or parents noted on death certificate. The Farnfield family is well documented but would be most pleased with any information regarding Rubina. Mrs N.P. Montague, 13 Honeysuckle Grove, Evandale TAS 7212  6391 8586

MUMMERY Seeking information on any MUMMERY family that has lived in Tasmania, particularly William aged 36 who married Mary Ann ASHFORD at Campbell Town in 1846. William who married Mary Ann LOGAN in New Norfolk in 1860. Their children Mary Ann b1864 married Louis KROMER in Hobart and Henry William b1865 in Hobart. William aged 62 a baker who died Hobart 1873 and was born in Kent UK. My special interest is the Mummery Family from Margate in Kent and linking families who have migrated. Beverley Bragge, PO Box 4, Koetong VIC 3704 or email [email protected]

PECK George Henry PECK, my gggrandfather, arrived Hobart Town 27 June 1833, per Warrior. According Dictionary of Australian Artists and AOT records, he was violinist, painter, carver, art dealer etc. He married Sophia Winifred WILKINSON 28 June 1836 in Hobart and according to DC they had four boys and three girls. When George died 24 September 1863, one boy and two girls were living. Son Felix was informant. My ggrandmother Rosetta Sophia was one of the girls. She married Henry Thomas CLARKE. In NSW BDMs a Henry George Brennan Peck was born c.1837 and died 1863—possibly before his father. I cannot find records of Sophia Wilkinson before her marriage, nor anything about the children. Rosetta was born at sea on the Bardaster 17 March 1844, but were the Pecks coming or going? I have records after her marriage, but cannot find official record of her birth. Appreciate any information about Sophia and her children. Please contact Mrs June F. Burges 8/47 Owen Street, Port Macquarie NSW 2444  (02) 6583 9349 or email: [email protected]

WARE/GEARD Seeking descendants of William WARE, per Aboukir and Margaret WELCH, per Martin Luther who married in Hobart March 1854. Their children were Mary Ann

TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 i (1856), John (1860), Thomas (1861) and James (1868). IGI records show marriage of Mary Ann Ware to John GEARD in December 1874 at New Norfolk, their son Albert born 1886. Grandchildren were David (1912), Benjamin (1914), Alicia (1916) and Letitia (1917). All born New Norfolk. Please contact Rita Barry, 97 Bideford Green, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 2TJ ENGLAND

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If you find a name in which you are interested, please note the membership number and check the New Members’ listing for the appropriate name and address. Please enclose a stamped self–addressed envelope and don’t forget to reply if you receive a SSAE.

NAME PLACE/AREA TIME M’SHIP NO. AVERY John Hobart TAS AUS 1804–1830 5833 BAILEY Olive Matlock DBY ENG 1900+ 5825 BAILEY Ruth Matlock DBY ENG 1900+ 5825 BARDENHAGEN 1539 BERESFORD Percy Robert Glenorchy TAS AUS 1866–? 5831 BURKE Michael Connemara IRL 1800–1840 5837 CARTWRIGHT Lucy Hobart TAS AUS 1880+ 5833 CHICK 1539 CLANCY Ann Longford TAS AUS 1836+ 5834 COOKE TAS AUS 5823 COOMBER Arthur Purcell NSW AUS 1895–1940 5824 COOMBER George Edward M Armidale NSW AUS 1900–1928 5824 COOMBER Arthur Dudley NSW AUS 1919–1994 5824 CURTIS Julia Stanley TAS AUS 1870–1900 5837 DEMPSTER Launceston TAS AUS 1882+ 5804 DICKENSON John Henry Birmingham WAR ENG 1840–1860 5831 FIELDER Sarah Elizabeth 1817+ 5829 FRANKS SOM ENG c1800 5828 FRASER 1539 GABY Thomas Bothwell TAS AUS pre 1838 5826 GANGELL William Hobart TAS AUS 1804–1860 5833 GERMANS 1539 GOLDSMITH John Oatlands TAS AUS 1830–1900 5833 GRANT George Walker Melbourne VIC AUS 1880–? 5831 HARRIS Francis Camborne CON ENG 1790–1857 5832 JARDINE James SCT 1870–1916 5830 JARDINE James Melbourne VIC AUS 1899–1916 5830 KINCAID Campbell Town TAS AUS 1850+ 5834 KINELLA Thomas Waratah TAS AUS 1875–1898 5834 MANN Oatlands TAS AUS 5836 MC NEAR John Launceston TAS AUS 1880+ 5834 MOODY TAS AUS 1816+ 5835 O’REILLY John Circular Head TAS AUS 1850–1900 5837 OATES Charles Lucaston TAS AUS 1850–1900 5827 PARSONS Frederick TAS AUS 1840s 5826 PATMORE Joshua HRT ENG 1800–1880 5833 PAYNE Oatlands TAS AUS 1852+ 5836 POLLEY Charlotte Longford TAS c1880 5826 PRATT TAS AUS 1850+ 5835 REDBURN Mark TAS AUS 5823 REILLY John COR IRL 1811–1840 5837 REYNOLDS Josephine Hobart TAS AUS 5830 RICHARDSON Albert Hobart TAS AUS 1870+ 5833 RYAN Margaret Maud Lucaston TAS AUS 1850–1900 5827 SANHAM Annie KEN ENG 1864–1900 5824 SAUNDERS Robert Longford TAS AUS 1810+ 5834 SAUNDERS William Henry Evandale TAS AUS 1880–1930 5834 SELFE Sarah Jane 5830 STEVENS Joseph Oxford OXF ENG 1790–1852 5832 STEVENS Joseph Bristol GLS ENG 1790–1852 5832 STEVENS Joseph Tredegar MON WLS 1790–1852 5832 SULZBERGER 1539 SUTTON Samuel Askew 1807+ 5829

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SWARD TAS AUS 1860+ 5835 TATLOW Anthony DBY ENG 1800–1840 5837 TATLOW Anthony IRL 1820–1840 5837 TOOMEY Julia Stanley TAS AUS 1870–1900 5837 TROON William Redruth CON ENG c1840 5826 WALTON Sarah Birmingham WAR ENG 1825–1841 5829 WALTON Sarah Launceston TAS AUS 1841–? 5829 WATSON John Nottingham NTT ENG 1805–1830 5829 WATSON John Launceston TAS AUS 1830–1866 5829 WHITBURN John Henry CON ENG 5830 WIGMORE Thomas Bothwell TAS AUS c1820 5826 WIGMORE Thomas ENG c1820 5826 YOUNG George Sorell TAS AUS 1860 5826

NEW MEMBERS On behalf of the Society, a warm welcome is extended to the following new members.

1539 BARDENHAGEN Ms Marita 18 Welman Street LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 5804 DEMPSTER Mrs Rosemary 5 Church Hams Finchampstead Wokingham BERKS RG40 4XF UK [email protected] 5821 ROGERS Mrs Melissa 259 Colgraves Road PIPERS RIVER TAS 7252 [email protected] 5822 FREEMAN Mrs Debbie M 4 Pitten Crief RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 [email protected] 5823 FREEMAN Mr Stephen R 4 Pitten Crief RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 [email protected] 5824 FLANNERY Mrs P Karon PO Box 32 BUDDINA QLD 7250 [email protected] 5825 SWEETMAN Mrs Susan C 22 Nalimba Street HALLETS COVE SA 5158 5826 YOUNG Mrs Denise Ruth 24 Hilltop Avenue DEVONPORT TAS 7310 5827 OATES Miss Katrina Maree 16 Main Road HUONVILLE TAS 7109 5828 FRANKS Mr David Robert 1013 Murchison Highway ELLIOTT TAS 7325 5829 FRANKS Mrs Marie Lynn 1013 Murchison Highway ELLIOTT TAS 7325 5830 RICE Mrs Judith PO Box 74 SOMERSET TAS 7322 [email protected] 5831 DICKENSON Mr Keith PO Box 4 COLES BAY TAS 7215 5832 BLIGHT Mrs Elizabeth Jane 8 Kangora Place SUMMERHILL TAS 7250 [email protected] 5833 THOMAS Mrs Anne 343 Invermay Road LAUNCESTON TAS 7248 [email protected] 5834 SAUNDERS Mrs Stacey 343 Invermay Road LAUNCESTON TAS 7248 [email protected] 5835 MOODY Mr Laurence R 57 Ridge Road PARK BEACH TAS 7173 [email protected] 5836 PAYNE Glenda Rosemary 7 Carcoola Street CHIGWELL TAS 7011 [email protected] 5837 MCCARTHY Mrs Norah T 60 Kellatie Road ROSNY TAS 7018

CHANGE OF DETAILS 1569 CLEMENTSON Lesley 28 Cromwell Street BATTERY POINT TAS 7004 2706 MONK Stella Jean Unit 13c 2 Central Avenue LANE COVE NSW 2066 [email protected] 5712 GRAHAM Debbie [email protected]

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Home page: http://www.tasfhs.org State email: secr et ar y@ t asf hs. or g

Postal address: PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 Journal email: edi t or @ t asf hs. or g

Branch Postal Addresses for correspondence Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 Devonport: PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 Hobart: PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250

Branch Library Addresses Burnie: 58 Bass Highway Cooee Tasmania 7320 Devonport: Rms 37–39 Days Bldg cnr Best and Rooke Sts Devonport Tas 7310 Hobart: 19 Cambridge Road Bellerive Tasmania 7018 Huon: Soldiers Memorial Hall Marguerite Street Ranelagh Tasmania 7109 Launceston: 2 Taylor Street Invermay Tasmania 7250

Deadline dates for contributions: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October

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Burnie Devonport President Vernice Dudman (03) 6431 1378 President David Harris (03) 6424 5328 Secretary Peter Holloway (03) 6431 1958 Secretary Isobel Harris (03) 6424 5328 Branch addresses Branch addresses [email protected] [email protected] PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 http://www.devonport.tco.asn.au/dev-gst

President President Miss Vernice Dudman 6431 1378 Mr David Harris 6424 5328 Vice President [email protected] Mr Peter Cocker 6435 4103 Vice President [email protected] Mrs Sue McCreghan 6428 2288 Correspondence Secretary Secretary Mr Peter Holloway 6431 1958 Mrs Isobel Harris 6424 5328 [email protected] Minute Secretary Treasurer Mrs Marj Margetts 6433 0337 Mr John Dare 6424 7889 Treasurer Librarian Mrs Ann Bailey 6431 5058 Mrs Glenice Brauman 6424 7577 Library Coordinators [email protected] Mrs Judy Cocker 6435 4103 Research Mrs Elaine Murray 6431 1682 Mrs Elaine Garwood 6424 4005 Publication/Publicity Officer [email protected] Mr Ray Hyland 6431 7404 Committee Research Mrs Elaine Garwood 6424 4005 Mrs Glenice Brauman 6424 7577 Mrs Sybil Russell 6433 0245 Mrs Kay Stewart 6462 2073 Committee Mrs Diana Grant 6424 6367 Mrs Colleen Williams 6433 0443 Mrs Rosie Marshall 6426 7334 Mrs Gay Spicer 6442 2770 Mr Levi Stebbins 6424 9574 State Delegates State Delegates Mrs Judy Cocker 6435 4103 Mr David Harris 6424 5328 Mrs Isobel Harris 6424 5328 Alternate Delegate MrLevi Stebbins 6424 9574

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Hobart Huon President Beverley Richardson President Betty Fletcher (03) 6264 1546 (03) 6225 3292 Secretary Libby Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Secretary Leo Prior (03) 6228 5057 Fax (03) 6239 6824 Branch addresses Branch addresses [email protected] [email protected] PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 http://www.hobart.tasfhs.org

President President Ms Beverley Richardson 6225 3292 Mrs Betty Fletcher 6264 1546 [email protected] Vice President Vice President Mrs Elaine Burton 6264 1345 Mr Brian Hortle 6225 2124 Secretary Secretary Mrs Libby Gillham 6239 6529 Mr Leo Prior 6228 5057 Treasurer [email protected] Minute Secretary Mr R John Gillham 6239 6529 Ms Vee Maddock 6243 9592 [email protected] [email protected] Librarian Treasurer Mrs Coralie Mesecke 6297 1940 Mr Tony Potter 6248 6031 Assistant Librarian [email protected] Mrs Amanda Cavenett 6264 1948 Librarian Research Mrs Marjorie Jacklyn 6243 8615 Mrs Rosalie Riley 6264 1036 [email protected] Publicity Committee Mrs Libby Gillham 6239 6529 Mr Maurice Appleyard 6248 4229 Rosemary Davidson 6278 2464 State Delegates Mrs Anne Hay 6244 2984 Mrs Libby Gillham 6239 6529 Mrs Denise McNeice 6228 3564 Mr John Gillham 6239 6529 [email protected] Alternate Delegate Mr Bryan Pearce 6227 8190 Mrs Betty Fletcher 6264 1546 Mr Robert Tanner 6231 0794 State Delegates Rosemary Davidson 6278 2464 Ms Beverley Richardson 6225 3292 Alternate Delegate Mr Maurice Appleyard 6248 4229

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Launceston LIBRARY HOURS President Anita Swan (03) 6326 5778 BURNIE Secretary Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Phone: (03) 6431 1958 (Branch Sec.) Branch address [email protected] Library 58 Bass Highway, Cooee PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 Tuesday 11:00 a.m.3:00 p.m. http://www.tasfhs.org Saturday 1:00 p.m.4:00 p.m. follow link to Launceston branch The library is open at 7:00 p.m. prior to meetings.

DEVONPORT Phone: (03) 6424 5328 (Branch Sec.) Library Rooms 37–39 Days Building, Cnr Best & Rooke Sts, Devonport Tuesday 10:00 a.m.4:00 p.m. President Thursday 10:00 a.m.4:00 p.m. Mrs Anita Swan 6326 5778 [email protected] HOBART Vice President Phone: (03) 6228 5057 (Branch Sec.) Mrs Alma Ranson 6394 4404 Library 19 Cambridge Road, Bellerive Secretary Tuesday 12:30 p.m.3:30 p.m. Miss Muriel Bissett Ph/Fax 6344 4034 Wednesday 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. [email protected] Saturday 1:30 p.m.4:30 p.m. Treasurer Miss Betty Bissett Ph/Fax 6344 4034 HUON Sales & Publicity Phone: (03) 6239 6529 (Branch Sec.) Mrs Judith De Jong 6327 3917 Library Soldiers Memorial Hall, Membership Sec./Mailbox Officer Marguerite Street, Ranelagh Miss Helen Stuart 6331 9175 Saturday 1:30 p.m.4:00 p.m. eHeritage Wednesday 1:30 p.m.4:00 p.m. Mrs Alma Ranson 6394 4404 Committee Members LAUNCESTON Mr Alan Leighton 6326 2318 Phone: (03) 6344 4034 (Branch Sec.) Mr Geoff Rapley 6343 0699 Library 2 Taylor St., Invermay, L’ton Mr Barrie Robinson 6328 1349 Tuesday 10:00 a.m.3:00 p.m. Mr Russell Watson 6344 8968 Wednesday 7:00 p.m.8:30 p.m. Mrs Judith Whish-Wilson 6394 8456 Closed Wednesday night during June, July Publications: chaired by President and the first two weeks of August. Library: committee chaired by President Saturday 2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m. Research Mrs Marie Gatenby 6331 5559 State Delegates Miss Helen Stuart 6331 9175 Mrs Judith Whish-Wilson 6394 8456

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